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

geographical regions measured by the Herfindahl Index. To explore this issue, we use a unique data set of the individual bank loan …

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce … banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue … bank managers and shareholders becomes less severe. Consequently, banks' capital structure needs to be less concerned with …

quantitative models in a new perspective. This knowledge may prove valuable for regulators who aim to understand bank behaviour and …

Open-end real estate funds are of particular importance in the German bank- dominated financial system. However …

We investigate the relationship between real estate markets and bank distress among German universal and specialized … bank distress (PDs). But higher prices at given rents may also indicate excessive expectations regarding the present value … real estate exposures amplify this effect. Rising real estate price levels alone reduce bank PDs, but only for banks with …