We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …

natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by …

period. In addition, we observe that Total Factor Productivity growth for the median euro area bank decreased from around 2 … bank’s efforts in areas such as rationalisation of branches, digitalisation of business processes and possibly mergers and …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …

, we show that the economic impact of changes in bank capital requirements depends on the state of the macro …, the impact on bank loan supply works through a ”pricing channel” which is small: around 0.1% less loans for a 1pp increase …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition … on the lending markets in the five major EU countries as well as, for comparison, the UK, the US and Japan. Bearing the …