This paper investigates the relationship between bank funding costs and solvency for a large sample of euro area banks … relationship between bank solvency, on the one hand, and senior bond yields, term deposit rates and overnight deposit rates, on the … other. The analysis finds a significant negative relationship between bank solvency and the different types of funding costs …

businesses who already have access to bank credit. Firms use FinTech to obtain long-term unsecured loans and reduce their … increase leverage and substitute long-term bank debt with FinTech debt. Our findings suggest that FinTech allows firms to … preserve financial flexibility, reduce their bank dependence and exposure to banking shocks …

between productivity and bank credit in the context of different financial market set-ups, we introduce a model of overlapping … and Italy to explore the relation between bank credit and productivity following the main derivations of the model. We … estimate an extended set of elasticities of bank credit with respect to a series of productivity measures of firms. We focus …

We show that negative policy rates affect the supply of bank credit in a novel way. Banks are reluctant to pass on … low-deposit banks. As a consequence, the introduction of negative policy rates by the European Central Bank in mid-2014 …

relationship with their savings bank prior to applying for a loan, default significantly less than customers with no prior …

We study how the consequences of violations of covenants associated with bank lines of credit to firms vary with the … the heart of a new bank liquidity channel. This channel complements the traditional bank lending channel, which focuses on …