Low Interest Rates and Bank Risk-Taking: Has the Crisis Changed Anything? Evidence from the Eurozone

Low Interest Rates and Bank Risk-Taking: Has the Crisis Changed Anything? Evidence from the Eurozone

This paper examines the impact of monetary policy on bank risk-taking and the influence of the recent financial crisis on this relation. We use a dataset of 571 commercial banks from Eurozone and analyze the relation on the period from 1999 to 2011, with emphasize on the period 2008 to 2011. We use...

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Main Authors: Andries Alin Marius, Cocriş Vasile, Pleşcău Ioana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2015-06-01
Series:Review of Economic and Business Studies
Subjects:
monetary policy
bank risk-taking
financial crisis
monetary transmission mechanism
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/rebs-2016-0019

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