multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … specific cost parameters to measure competition with Lerner indices. Large, national universal banks and the smallest, most … specialized banks exhibit the lowest level of competition. In turn, medium sized universal banks are both efficient and exhibit …

policymakers' efforts to strengthen bank capitalization. …

-term loans issued by the largest 69 German banking groups to the private sector of 66 countries. We show that the parent bank …'s lending adjustment is based almost exclusively on supply-side determinants, in particular on bank-specific factors. However … located abroad. Focusing on risk measures such as the parent bank's ratio of Tier I capital to risk-weighted assets, we find …

This paper analyses the role of bank-related constraints in explaining the sharp slowdown in bank lending to non … individual responses of the banks participating in the Eurosystem's Bank Lending Survey with the corresponding micro data on loan … quantities and prices. Our main finding is that bank-related supply and demand-side indicators were both important in explaining …

the Basel II agreement on the pro-cyclicality of bank lending and firms' access to funds during a recession. In response …

markets) during the financial crisis has affected their provision of funds to their foreign branches and subsidiaries via bank … likely to withdraw bank-internal funds from their branches and subsidiaries located abroad. Among the three events, the … rescue of Bear Stearns triggered the largest contraction on internal capital markets from the part of the parent bank …

position of its parent bank. We furthermore detect competition for intra-bank funding across the affiliates abroad as well as …We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank's affiliates located abroad are affected by funding … a disadvantage in the crisis, as inter-bank and capital markets froze. Besides, the more an affiliate abroad takes …