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

the banks' trading revenues and help to explain the bank VaR performance results. While highly conservative in the pre …-crisis period, bank VaR exceedances were excessive and clustered in the crisis period. All benchmark VaRs were more accurate in the …-period market conditions. Despite their weaker performance, the bank VaRs exhibited greater predictive power for a measure of …

likelihood of bank distress makes banks reduce their on-balance sheet interest rate exposure and simultaneously intensify their …

In this paper we relate a bank's choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …

This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

In this paper, we analyze the impact of loan growth and business model on bank risk in 15 EU countries. In contrast to …, decreases with bank size possibly because large banks are more active in volatile trading and off-balance sheet activities such …

bank-level data for German banks, we find evidence that a bank's exposure to interest rate risk depends on its presumed … optimization horizon. The longer the presumed optimization horizon is, the more the bank is exposed to interest rate risk in its … exposure to interest rate risk. The more a bank is exposed to the risk of a decline in the interest rate level, the higher its …

large U.S. banks assign to syndicated loans for regulatory capital purposes. Using internal bank data on loans that had PDs … and LGDs assigned by more than one bank, we find substantial dispersion in these parameters. Banks differ substantially in … PDs, but only a few set PDs systematically higher or lower than the median bank. However, many banks differ from the …