Market structure, state ownership and monetary policy transmission through bank lending channel: Evidence from Vietnamese commercial banks

Is There a Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy in Latvia? Evidence from Bank Level Data

2 Introduction 3 1. The Bank Lending Channel 4 1.1 Interest Rate and Credit Channels: a Brief Overview of Theoretical Concepts 4 1.2 Determinants of the Bank Lending Channel 6 2. A Short Description of Latvia's Banking Sector 7 2.1 Importance of the Banking Sector for Latvia's Financial System 7 2.2 Structure of Latvia's Banking Sector 8 3. Discovering Asymmetries in Bank Lending Behaviour 12 3...

Bank Lending and Monetary Policy: A Comment

Bank Organization, Market Structure and Risk Taking: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Commercial Banks

This paper examines (1) the change in commercial banks’ risk taking as states in the United States removed restrictions on bank branching within state borders and (2) the channels through which the removal of these restrictions affects bank risk taking. I find that, after the liberalization of branching restrictions, banks that do not expand their branch network into other markets decrease risk...

Interbank lending and monetary policy transmission: evidence for Germany

This paper presents empirical evidence on the behaviour of interbank lending in Germany after a monetary policy impulse. Our VAR analysis shows that following a monetary contraction, the banking system as a whole attracts additional funds from foreign banks. Whereas small cooperative and savings banks do not seem to directly access the interbank market themselves, they do so indirectly through ...

Crises and Rescues: Monetary Policy Transmission Through International Banks

We study the effects of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Term Auction Facility (TAF) on globally active banks. We exploit a unique dataset with information on all foreign activities of German banks’ affiliates both, inand outside the US. All German parent banks with US affiliates tapped TAF liquidity, which mitigates self-selection concerns. This setting allows testing whether foreign affiliate activ...