Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …

, depositors, and regulators in connection with bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions … potential endogeneity which are usually inherent to research into the real economic implications of bank regulation. We find a … dependent on bank financing. Our findings are robust to various specifications. Investigating the transmission channels of the …

likelihood of bank distress makes banks reduce their on-balance sheet interest rate exposure and simultaneously intensify their …

asymmetric bank borrowing is widespread. This paper investigates the determinants of creditor concentration for German firms … using a comprehensive bank-firm level dataset for the time period between 1993 and 2003. We document that lending is very … public sector bank and if the other banks are large or do not have to tie up additional funds in capital. …

Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … the expense of deteriorating bank profits and excessive risk-taking. Both the quantitative effects and dynamic reactions …