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 …