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 …

monetary policy does alter bank loan supply, with the effects most dependent on the liquidity of individual banks. Unlike in … the US, the size of a bank does generally not explain its lending reaction. We also show that the standard publicly … ihres Liquiditätsgrads variiert. Im Gegensatz zu den USA ist im Allgemeinen die Größe einer Bank kein direkter …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … for public finances. Regimes for the restructuring and resolution of banks, financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops …, seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and to increase the costs of leverage. This …