Featured Research European Banking Center (EBC)
2016-2017
- Can the Fed Talk the Hind Legs Off the Stock Market? by Sylvester Eijffinger, Ronald Mahieu and Louis Raes
- Bank capital (requirements) and credit supply: Evidence from pillar 2 decisions by Olivier de Jonghe, Hans Dewachter, Steven Ongena
- Hawks and Doves at the FOMC, Sylvester Eijffinger, Ronald Mahieu and Louis Raes - Full paper - Vox Column
- Regional Inflation, Financial Integration and Dollarization, Martin Brown, Ralph De Haas, and Vladimir Sokolov - Full paper
- Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and Their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations, Gert Peersman, Wolf Wagner - Full paper
- E-book on Banking Union for Europe
2015
- February 2015
Hawks and Doves at the FOMC
Sylvester Eijffinger, Ronald Mahieu and Louis Raes
Full paper
- February 2015
Regional Inflation, Financial Integration and Dollarization
Martin Brown, Ralph De Haas, and Vladimir Sokolov
Full paper
2014
- February 2014
The Transmission of Real Estate Shocks Through Multinational Banks
Ata Can Bertay
Full paper
- February 2014
Shocks to Bank Lending, Risk-Taking, Securitization, and Their Role for U.S. Business Cycle Fluctuations
Gert Peersman, Wolf Wagner
Full paper
2013
- November 2013
Good corporate governance is bad for bank capitalisation
Deniz Anginer, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Harry Huizinga, Kebin Ma
Vox Column
- October 2013
System-wide exposures to emerging markets
Dirk Schoenmaker, Wolf Wagner
Vox Column
- August 2013
Informal or formal financing: First evidence on co-funding of Chinese firms
Hans Degryse, Liping Lu, Steven Ongena
Vox Column
- July 2013
Supranational supervision: How much and for whom?
Thorsten Beck, Wolf Wagner
Vox Column
2012
- October 2012
Basel liquidity rules and their impact on the interbank money market
Clemens Bonner, Sylvester Eijffinger
Vox Column
- October 2012
Capital gains taxation and the cost of capital
Harry Huizinga, Johannes Voget, Wolf Wagner
Vox Column
- October 2012
Financial innovation: The bright and the dark sides
Thorsten Beck,Tao Chen, Chen Lin, Frank Song
Vox Column
- October 2012
Banking Union for Europe - Risks and Challenges
Thorsten Beck
Vox eBook
- August 2012
Is lending by state banks more stable over the business cycle?
Ata Can Bertay, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Harry Huizinga
Vox Column
- July 2012
Foreigners vs. natives: Bank lending and loan pricing
Thorsten Beck, Vasso P. Ioannidou, Larissa Schäfer
Vox Column
- June 2012
Financing start-ups: The impact of credit scoring and bank concentration
Hans Degryse, Martin Brown, Daniel Hoewer, María Fabiana Penas
Vox Column
- June 2012
Determinants of banking system fragility: A regional perspective
Hans Degryse, Muhammad Ather Elahi, María Fabiana Penas
Vox Column
- June 2012
Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments
Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena, José-Luis Peydró, Jesús Saurina
Full paper
- February 2012
Bank Supervision Going Global? A Cost-Benefit Analysis
Thorsten Beck, Wolf Wagner, Radomir Todorov
Full paper
- February 2012
Does the European Financial Stability Facility Bail Out Sovereigns or Banks? An Event Study
Harry Huizinga, Bálint Horváth
Full paper
- February 2012
Credit Supply versus Demand: Bank and Firm Balance-Sheet Channels in Good and Crisis Times
Gabriel Jiménez, Steven Ongena, José-Luis Peydró, Jesús Saurina
Full paper
- January 2012
Corporate Governance, Opaque Bank Activities, and Risk/Return Efficiency: Pre- and Post-Crisis Evidence from Turkey
Olivier De Jonghe, Mustafa Disli, Koen Schoors
Full paper
- January 2012
On the Non-Exclusivity of Loan Contracts: An Empirical Investigation
Hans Degryse, Vasso Ioannidou, Erik von Schedvin
Full paper
- January 2012
Why is Price Discovery in Credit Default Swap Markets News-Specific?
Ian Marsh, Wolf Wagner
Full paper
2011
- October 2011
Institutional Investor Preferences and Executive Compensation
Joseph A. McCahery, Zacharias Sautner
Full paper
- October 2011
Bank competition and stability: Cross-country heterogeneity
Thorsten Beck, Olivier De Jonghe, Glenn Schepens
Vox column
- October 2011
The Credit Crisis and the Moral Responsibility of Professionals in Finance
Johan Graafland, Bert van de Ven
Full paper
- July 2011
Banks' Use of Credit Derivatives and the Pricing of Loans: What Is the Channel and Does It Persist Under Adverse Economic Conditions?
Lars Norden, Consuelo Silva Buston, Wolf Wagner
Full paper
- July 2011
Securitization and lending standards: Evidence from the wholesale loan market
Alper Kara, David Marques-Ibanez, Steven Ongena
Full paper
- July 2011
Lessons from the taxation of cross-border banking for new financial taxes
Harry Huizinga, Johannes Voget, Wolf Wagner
- March 2011
Who Invests in Home Equity to Exempt Wealth from Bankruptcy?
Stefano Corradin, Reint Gropp, Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven
Full paper
- March 2011
The Bond Yield Conundrum: Alternative Hypotheses and the State of the Economy
Sylvester Eijffinger, Ronald Mahieu, Louis Raes
- March 2011
A Century of British Firm - Bank Relationships: Why the Transition to Multiple Banking?
Fabio Braggion, Steven Ongena
Full paper
2010
- December 2010
Does Banking Competition Alleviate or Worsen Credit Constraints Faced by Small and Medium Enterprises? Evidence from China
Terrence Tai-Leung Chong, Liping Lu, Steven Ongena
Full paper
- December 2010
Foreign Currency Lending in Emerging Europe: Bank-Level Evidence
Martin Brown, Ralph de Haas
Full paper
- December 2010
Finance for all? Banking structure reform may not be the way
Thorsten Beck, Martin Brown
- May 2010
Financial Collateral Arrangements and Party Autonomy
Reinout M. Wibier
Full paper
- April 2010
Information Sharing and Credit Rationing: Evidence from the Introduction of a Public Credit Registry
Xiaoqiang Cheng, Hans Degryse
Full paper
- April 2010
'Foreign banks and small and medium enterprises: Are they really estranged?
Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Full paper
- March 2010
Inflation Expectations and Monetary Policy Design: Evidence from the Laboratory
Damjan Pfajfar and Blaž Žakelj
Full paper
- March 2010
Who Needs Credit and Who Gets Credit in Eastern Europe?
Martin Brown, Steven Ongena, Alexander Popov, Pinar Yesin
Full paper
- March 2010
The Lender of Last Resort: Liquidity Provision Versus the Possibility of Bail-Out
Rob Nijskens, Sylvester Eijffinger
Full paper
- February 2010
Mergers and Acquisitions in British Banking: Forty Years of Evidence from 1885 until 1925
Lyndon Moore, Narly Dwarkasing, Fabio Braggion
Full paper
- January 2010
Which Firms Engage Small, Foreign, or State Banks? And Who Goes Islamic?
Steven Ongena, Ilkay Sendeniz-Yuncu
Full paper
- January 2010
Tranching in the Syndicated Loan Market
Douglas Cumming, Joseph McCahery, Armin Schwienbacher
Full paper
2009
- December 2009
Tests of Ex Ante versus Ex Post Theories of Collateral using Private and Public Information Allen Berger, W. Scott Frame, Vasso Ioannidou
Full paper
- December 2009
Tail Risk at Banks
Martin Knaup, Wolf Wagner
Full paper
- November 2009
Calvin's Restrictions on Interest: Guidelines for the Credit Crisis
Johan Graafland
Full paper
- October 2009
Foreign Currency Loans - Demand or Supply Driven?
Martin Brown, Karolin Kirschenmann, Steven Ongena
Full paper
- October 2009
Fiddling with accounting rulesis not going to restorethe banks to health
Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven
Full paper
- October 2009
Interbank Market Integration, Loan Rates, and Firm Leverage
Steven Ongena, Alexander A. Popov
Full paper
- October 2009
Central Bank Transparency and Private Forecasts
Sylvester Eijffinger, Michael Ehrmann, Marcel Fratzscher
Full paper
- October 2009
Gender and Banking: Are Women Better Loan Officers?
Thorsten Beck, Patrick Behr, Andre Güttler
Full paper
- September 2009
What explains the cost of remittances?
Thorsten Beck, Maria Soledad Martinez Peria
Full paper
- September 2009
Disaggregating Financial Development: the Effects of Lending to Households and Firms
Thorsten Beck, Berrak Buyukkarabacak, Felix Rioja, Neven Valev
Full paper
- September 2009
Cross-Border Exposures and Financial Contagion
Hans Degryse, Muhammad Ather Elahi, María Fabiana Penas
Full paper
- September 2009
Foreign Currency Borrowing by Small Firms
Martin Brown, Steven Ongena, Pinar Yesin
Full paper
- September 2009
Does Debtor Protection Really Protect Debtors? Evidence from the Small Business Credit Market
Allen N. Berger, Geraldo Cerqueiro, María Fabiana Penas
Full paper
- May 2009
Bank ownership and stability: Evidence from Germany
Thorsten Beck, Heiko Hesse, Thomas Kick, Natalja von Westernhagen
Full paper - January 2009
Deflation or stagflation in the Eurozone?
Sylvester Eijffinger
Full paper
2008
- December 2008
A common EU approach to corporate taxation
Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven
Full paper
- December 2008
Diversification at Financial Institutions and Systemic Crises
Wolf Wagner
Full paper
- December 2008
Crisis management in the European Union
Sylvester Eijffinger
Full paper
- October 2008
Does loose monetary policy cause crises?
Vasso Ioannidou, Steven Ongena, Jose Luis Peydro