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 …

, 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 …

German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model where banks are exposed to credit and … an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare, with their …

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 …

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

the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset extracted from Target2 and also exploit the Lehman and sovereign …

sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First … impact of sovereign bond holdings on bank risk. This result could indicate the widespread absence of marking-to-market for …