-oriented regime for merger control increases banks’ stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …

bank loans to U.S. firms over the period of 1980- 2003. We find that investors react positively to such announcements if …’s headquarters state. Investor reaction is, in fact, the largest when the bank is foreign. Our evidence suggest that investors value … bank identities and reputation seem to matter a great deal. …

resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …

We analyze how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements a ect banks' balance sheet adjustments as well as bank … lending to the non-financial corporate sector. To do so, we relate Pillar 2 capital requirements to bank balance sheet data, a … examine how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements affect banks' balance sheet composition. Subsequently, we …

This paper studies the effects of the bank capital requirements imposed by the European authorities in October 2011 on … granted by a representative Spanish bank and several subsidiaries to nonfinancial corporations around that date. We document …

We analyze the impact of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank and Bank of England on cross … and UK, respectively. In general QE works at short maturities across bank locations and loan currencies, more strongly for …

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and … period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower distance increases from zero to the median of about 900 miles is 17 …, geographical distance does not seem to have any effect on the loan spread of mortgages granted by non-bank lenders. Moreover, loans …