minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability … profitability of German banks and their capacity to lend. With a NSFR-model that is partially calibrated against reported NSFRs, we …

-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …

methodology developed by Amiti and Weinstein (2013) to a rich dataset of matched bank-firm loans in the Portuguese economy for the … growth rate of individual loans in our dataset is decomposed into bank, firm, industry and common shocks. Adverse bank shocks …

growth known from macroeconomics to identify credit booms and test our model for German bank and bankportfolio level data …

the security level for each bank in each period, we find that during the crisis, banks with higher trading expertise …

risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …

products. We find that a bank's operational efficiency is priced in bank loan rates and alters interest-setting behavior … frontier analysis to comprehensively capture cost efficiency, we take the bank customers' perspective and demonstrate the …. Specifically, we establish that a higher degree of operational efficiency leads to lower loan markups, which involve more …