address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks’ responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

A crucial condition for the existence of a credit channel through bank loans is that monetary policy should be able to … change bank loan supply. This paper contributes to the discussion on this issue by presenting empirical evidence from dynamic … the average bank reduces its lending more sharply in reaction to a restrictive monetary policy measure, the lower its …

subset of large German banks, we estimate the target level and the adjustment speed of the capital ratio for each bank …

parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important …