After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a rapid and far-reaching shrinkage of international banks' assets with a focus …

on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs … maximization and a sustainable provision of financial services to local customers. We find that banks with a public mandate are 25 … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …

in general, better capitalized and less leveraged banks have outperformed their peers, a finding that supports …

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 …

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 …

banks in the time period between 1995 and 2013, before the Basel III liquidity regulation to address excessive maturity …. Using a dataset that contains information on critical events of German banks, we find that financing loans using fewer … customer deposits would have been associated with a higher probability of financial distress for savings banks and credit …

We study how contingent capital affects banks' risk choices. When triggered in highly levered states, going …

transforms existing financial claims against ultimate borrowers that have been originated by traditional banks. Based on … non-financial private sector had been originated by shadow banks. Consequently, dampening credit creation by the …

one banking relationship as long as they account for only a small share of the total loan volume of their banks. The …