German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

affect the likelihood and the timing of bank recovery. Severe regulatory measures increase both the likelihood of recovery … conditions also matter for bank recovery. Hence, concerted micro- and macro-prudential policies are key to facilitate distressed … bank recovery. …

’ regulatory capital on the transmission of monetary policy in a system of liquidity networks. The dynamic panel regression results … provide evidence in favor of the bank capital channel theory. Banks holding less regulatory capital and less interbank … liquidity react more restrictively to a monetary tightening than their peers. …

geographical regions measured by the Herfindahl Index. To explore this issue, we use a unique data set of the individual bank loan …. Moreover, we find that the impact of diversification depends strongly on the risk level. However, it is only for moderate risk …

marketability of bank assets allows banks to adopt a safer capital structure, the default risk of banks does not necessarily decline. …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 …

spread of a bank by about two basis points. We further find that some banks have already reached a size that makes them too …