Aufgrund des intensivierten Ertragsdrucks richten sich die Banken im Firmenkundengeschäft neu aus. Die bisherige Anbieterkonzentrierung wird durch die beziehungsorientierte Kundenorientierung in den strategischen Überlegungen ersetzt. Eine zentrale Rolle bei der Strategieumsetzung spielt der...

This paper introduces a stress test of the corporate credit portfolios of 24 large German banks by a two-stage approach: First, a macro-econometric model is used to forecast the impact of a substantial increase of the user cost of business capital for firms worldwide on three particularly...

We use a unique data set that comprises each bank’s bids in the Eurosystem’s main refinancing operations and its recourse to the LOLR facility (a) to derive banks’ willingness-to-pay for liquidity through a one-week repo and (b) to show that a bank’s willingness-to-pay is a good...

In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing...