The determinants of default risk of banks in emerging economies have so far received inadequate attention in the … the economy. Public sector banks have shown significant performance in containing bad debts. Private banks have continued … banks, apart from other accepted determinants of profitability, asset size has no significant impact on profitability. …

In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised … economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy—as financial intermediary, as lender to the … corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance system. Further, German banks are supervised by two supervisory …

stocks of European banks and the CDS markets. Their analysis has three purposes: (i) analysing the dependence structure of …

maintaining financial stability in the euro area by providing vast liquidity support to commercial banks that are operating in … nationally segmented banking systems. As a side effect, the national central banks substitute money market operations for cross …-border capital flows. The national central banks are thus increasingly engaging in substantial balance-of-payments financing, and …

This paper investigates the driving forces behind banks’ link formation in the interbank market by applying the … relationships between banks. We also find strong importance of size-related characteristics, but little influence of past interest … rates. The major changes found for the period after the onset of the financial crisis are that: (1) large banks and those …