foreign affiliates to help smooth domestic liquidity shocks. We also show that the existence of such internal capital markets … contributes to an international propagation of domestic liquidity shocks to lending by affiliated banks abroad. While these …

Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at … the expense of deteriorating bank profits and excessive risk-taking. Both the quantitative effects and dynamic reactions …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate … traditional efficiency scores with stochastic cost and alternative profit frontier analysis. Then, we explicitly allow for … different risk preferences and measure efficiency with a structural model based on utility maximization. Using the almost ideal …

efficiency comparisons across different samples. We use a latent class stochastic frontier model to estimate simultaneously … multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks …. Wir ermitteln die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Gruppenzugehörigkeit (GZW) je Bank in Abhängigkeit von sechs individuellen …

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 indicator for the probability that this bank draws on the LOLR facility. Our …

affects bank lending depends on the whether the banks are drawing on official sector liquidity facilities. Third, liquidity … heterogeneity in the balance sheet characteristics that affect banks' responses to liquidity risk. Overall, bank balance sheet … financial crisis. Yet, we know little about the actual magnitudes and mechanisms for transmission of liquidity shocks through …

less at the short end as compared to longer maturities in times of crisis. A liquidity stress factor included in the macro …

-the-counter markets for liquidity in Germany: the interbank market for credit and for derivatives. We use end-of-quarter data from the …

Motivated by the financial crisis of 2007-2009 several papers have provided explanations for why liquidity may dry up … during market stress. This paper also looks at this issue but focuses on the question as to why the liquidity crunch was not … need to provide longer-term liquidity. The paper asks what market failure central banks were addressing by intervening and …