In this paper, we analyze the impact of banks' non-interest income share on risk in the German banking sector for the … on risk significantly differs depending on banks' overall business model. More specifically, we show banks with retail …-oriented business model such as savings banks, cooperative banks and other retail-oriented banks become significantly more stable if …

the literature, we include a large number of unlisted banks in our sample which represent the majority of banks in the EU …. We show that banks with high rates of loan growth are more risky. Moreover, we find that banks will become more stable if …, decreases with bank size possibly because large banks are more active in volatile trading and off-balance sheet activities such …

recourse to the LOLR facility (a) to derive banks' willingness-to-pay for liquidity through a one-week repo and (b) to show … results suggest (i) that banks' willingness-to-pay for liquidity indeed reflects refinancing conditions in the interbank …

financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …

deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment. While the equity return performance in the banking sector has been dismal … in general, better capitalized and less leveraged banks have outperformed their peers, a finding that supports …

financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …

banks and analyze whether efficiency measures yield consistent results according to five criteria between 1993 and 2004 …-based measures of performance. We find that non-parametric methods are particularly sensitive to measurement error and outliers …. Furthermore, our results show that accounting for systematic differences among commercial, cooperative and savings banks is …

We analyze the stability of efficiency rankings of German universal banks between 1993 and 2004. First, we estimate …

Banks continue to differ in many ways, for instance with respect to business models, growth strategies, or financial … multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks … and we identify four signifficantly different technology regimes. Only small, retail focused banks exhibit cost …

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt … private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated …