increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism …

that, even when controlling for the standard economic variables that influence bank activity, a rise in the spread is …

suffer less deposit withdrawals or avoid a bank run in a severe crisis, because the state has better access to additional …

Do tightenings of bank lending standards permanently reduce bank lending? We construct a measure of a bank's level of … lending standards using micro-data from the sample of banks participating in the Eurosystem Bank Lending Survey in The … relevant; a one point tightening reduces a bank's quarterly growth rate of business lending by about half a percentage point …

the cash flows in correspondence with the flows generated by the companies was the reason that bank (creditor) – company … purpose of this study is to examine the main components of the companies’ bank lending and also to analyse the evolution of … the competition in terms of bank lending, in European Union, during 2005-2009 period. Section 1 presents the general …

reserves. While there has been extensive analysis of bank reserves after the bank holiday of 1933, little is known about bank … had a negative correlation with reserves and support the opportunity cost theory of Frost (1971). The discount rate … factors affecting bank behavior in the central money market during the Great Contraction …