problems involved. In this study, we analyze the effect of German bank mergers in the period 1995-2000 on banks' profitability …

-sized enterprises (SME). We measure the financing opportunities of SMEs based on the bank debt/assets ratio and the logarithmized credit … on bank credit and as they represent the vast majority of the corporate sector reduced credit availability for those … size and control both explicitly for bank mergers and for the increase in the average bank size in the course of the …

vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis of a bank merger's impact … for the rigidity of the deposit rates and for a range of merger, bank and local market features. An innovation of our work … impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers …

-European Bank mergers. In this paper we identify other more fundamental reasons for a limited degree of cross-country integration in …-border bank mergers. The paper derives the impact of different underlying stochastic structures on the optimal structure of cross … regional bank mergers. Imposing a symmetry restriction on the underlying stochastic structure of liquidity shocks we find that …

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 …

This paper studies the sectoral and geographical dimensions of the response of bank lending to sectoral growth. We use … several bank-level datasets provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank for the 1996-2002 period. Our results show that bank …. Moreover, we find that the response of lending depends on bank characteristics such as the banking groups, the banks? asset …

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 … evidence that loans amplify the transmission of macroeconomic fluctuations or that a "financial accelerator" via bank lending …

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 …