) abilities and on the sectoral concentration risk of a credit portfolio. In this paper, we examine in the first part if … cooperative banks. In the second part we measure the overall effect of better monitoring and the associated higher sectoral credit … concentrations on the credit risk of the portfolio. Our empirical results suggest that specialization benefits overcompensate the …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … for public finances. Regimes for the restructuring and resolution of banks, financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops …, seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and to increase the costs of leverage. This …

This paper analyzes how bank lending to the private nonbank sector responds dynamically to aggregate supply, demand and … output, prices, interest rates and bank loans over time. In order to assess the role of bank lending in the transmission of … to test the distributional implications of potential credit market frictions. The results suggest that there is no …

monetary policy does alter bank loan supply, with the effects most dependent on the liquidity of individual banks. Unlike in … the US, the size of a bank does generally not explain its lending reaction. We also show that the standard publicly … ihres Liquiditätsgrads variiert. Im Gegensatz zu den USA ist im Allgemeinen die Größe einer Bank kein direkter …