Bank risk and monetary policy

Yener Altunbas, Leonardo Gambacorta and David Marques-Ibanez

No 1075, Working Paper Series from European Central Bank

Abstract: We find evidence of a bank lending channel for the euro area operating via bank risk. Financial innovation and the new ways to transfer credit risk have tended to diminish the informational content of standard bank balance-sheet indicators. We show that bank risk conditions, as perceived by financial market investors, need to be considered, together with the other indicators (i.e. size, liquidity and capitalization), traditionally used in the bank lending channel literature to assess a bank JEL Classification: E44, E5

Keywords: bank; bank lending channel; monetary policy; risk (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-07
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