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 …

Loan guarantees represent a form of government intervention to support bank lending. However, their use raises concerns … as to their effect on bank risk-taking incentives. In a model of •nancial fragility that incorporates bank capital and a … bank incentive problem, we show that loan guarantees reduce depositor runs and improve bank underwriting standards, except …

of the traditional bank business model. Specialized providers of financial services can chip away activities that do not …

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 …

the role played by bank-level variables, banking sector features in each country, and the specific characteristics of the …/substitution effects of both bank- and portfolio-level variables with the characteristics of the banking sector when explaining credit risk …

Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) on bank lending behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find no …

investigate a specific type of externality that originates from those borrowers that obtain liquidity from more than one bank. In … this case, contagion may occur if a bank hit by a liquidity shock calls in some loans and borrowers then pay them back by …

How much of the heterogeneity in bank loan pricing is explained by disparities in banks’ attitude towards risk? The … answer to this question is not simple because there are only very weak proxies for gauging the degree of a bank’s risk … confirm that disparities in market power, banks’ funding costs, and banks’ funding risks are reflected in bank lending rates …