Commission, the European Central Bank and the IMF for action that would help bring Ireland and other stressed euro zone countries … liquidity dried up, countries such as Ireland with fragile and overextended credit environments, overpriced asset markets, and … accommodative regulatory systems were vulnerable to the resulting shock waves. This case explores Ireland's economic and financial …

question, I use firm-level data and firm-bank linkages to estimate the causal effect of an imported lending cut from a large … German bank on firms' capital structure and real outcomes. The estimates imply that for every 1 euro reduction in debt …

concentration indices (k bank concentration ratios (CR5) and the Herfindahl-Hirschman indices (HHI)).Empirical analysis shows that …

We examine the effects of opacity on bank valuation and the synchronicity of bank equity prices over the years 2000 … rise in bank equity share prices, decrease in transparent asset holdings by banks, and greater price synchronicity …