This paper investigates whether the new Basel Accord will induce a change in bank lending to emerging markets using a …

This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First … impact of sovereign bond holdings on bank risk. This result could indicate the widespread absence of marking-to-market for …

geographical regions measured by the Herfindahl Index. To explore this issue, we use a unique data set of the individual bank loan …

address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks' responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

network connections of the banks. The latter are in our application observed interbank exposures among German bank holding …-many-to-fail mechanics such that bank distress is less likely if many peers already experienced distress. …

This paper studies German bank lending during the Asian and Russian crises, using a bank level data set, which has been … compiled from credit data at the Deutsche Bundesbank. Our aim is to gain more insight into the pattern of German bank lending … characterised by a general withdrawal from emerging markets. The use of micro data allows us to analyse and to model bank …

heuristic approaches which capture the deviation of a bank's portfolio from a specified benchmark. Conceivable benchmarks are … indicate contradicting results on the individual bank level. Since distance measures are more appealing from a theoretical …, may be misleading. We further find that, despite these differences on the individual bank level, both approaches reveal …