different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal … demand system, we estimate input and profit demand functions to obtain proxies for expected return and risk. Efficiency is … then measured in this risk-return space. Mean risk-return efficiency is somewhat higher than cost and considerably higher …

Developments in risk-transfer instruments and risk management techniques in the last two decades have fundamentally …

Using a unique data set on German banks' loans to the German real economy, we investigate banks' credit risk. This data … regional factors, the loans' maturity structure is found to drive the bank-wide loss rates in the credit portfolio. (ii) The … nationwide loss rate has the most impact, followed by the maturity structure and the industry composition. (iii) For nationwide …