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. …

liquidity shocks. But in contrast to these approaches we assume spacial monopolistic competition among banks. Since monopoly … positive effect. But this beneficial effect is only relevant if competition among banks does not sufficiently restrain monopoly … rents already. Thus our results suggest that in the bank-dominated financial system of Germany, in which banks intensely …

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 …

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 …