recourse to the LOLR facility (a) to derive banks' willingness-to-pay for liquidity through a one-week repo and (b) to show … results suggest (i) that banks' willingness-to-pay for liquidity indeed reflects refinancing conditions in the interbank …

in general, better capitalized and less leveraged banks have outperformed their peers, a finding that supports …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …: levels, rankings, identification of extreme performers, stability over time and correlation to standard accounting …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate …

Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial … multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … and we identify four signifficantly different technology regimes. Only small, retail focused banks exhibit cost …

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt … private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated …

The paper investigates the factors crucial in the locational decisions of multinational German banks in selected … characteristics. Results indicate that FDI by non-banks exerted a strong pull effect on banking FDI flows, as did highly developed … backing of short-term banking deposits by international currency reserves. In almost all regressions, this financial crisis …

active banks. For the period from 2002 to 2010, we look at quarterly transaction data (excluding valuation effects) on long …, foreign countries' demand and risk characteristics become more relevant when loans are distributed by banks' affiliates … that rising risk aversion among banks curbed cross-border lending during the financial crisis, especially at a later stage …