Syndicated lending is a widely practiced alternative to traditional bilateral lending and within Europe the syndicated loan market increased significantly during the 2000s. Using a dataset consisting of 4166 European banks, the authors examine the factors that determine the bank's willingness to...

We assess the effect of securitization activity on banks' loan pricing practices employing a uniquely detailed dataset from the euro-denominated syndicated loan market. We find that in the run up to the 2007-2009 crisis banks that were more active at originating asset-backed securities did not...

We exploit the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how risk relates to bank business models. Institutions with higher risk exposure had less capital, larger size, greater reliance on short-term market funding, and aggressive credit growth. Business models related to significantly reduced bank...

Spain is particularly illustrative of the 2007-2010 financial crisis as it exemplifies in a vivid manner most of its core causes. This country experienced a pronounced housing bubble partly funded via spectacular expansion on its securitization markets leading to looser credit standards and...

We exploit the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how risk relates to bank business models. Institutions with higher risk exposure had less capital, larger size, greater reliance on short-term market funding, and aggressive credit growth. Business models related to significantly reduced bank...

We analyze the determinants of bank risk during the recent financial crisis for a large international panel of listed institutions. With a comprehensive dataset manually assembled from a variety of sources, we relate several measures of ex-post banks' distress – including the likelihood of a...

In the years preceding the 2007-2009 financial crisis, forward-looking indicators of bank risk concentrated and suggested unusually low expectations of bank default. We assess whether the ex-ante (i.e. prior to the crisis) cross-sectional variability in bank characteristics is related to the...

Syndicated lending is a widely practiced alternative to traditional bilateral lending and within Europe the syndicated loan market increased significantly during the 2000s. Using a dataset consisting of 4,166 European banks, the authors examine the factors that determine the bank's willingness...

Since 2007, monetary authorities around the globe have reduced their key policy interest rates to unprecedented low levels and intervened with non-standard policy measures (i.e., monetary easing and liquidity provision) to support funding conditions for banks, enhance lending to the private...

The euro area, the countries that have adopted the euro, is converging some more towards a banking union. Starting from November 2014, the European Central Bank has become the single supervisor of euro zone banks calling for a more integrated supervision. Despite the on-going process, there are...