German savers are renowned for preferring safe, long-term investments, thus providing patient capital, with bank … heterogeneity depending on banks' governance structures. The announcement of a state guarantee for bank deposits following the …

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 …

accounting, during their first (partial) year in charge, (2) incoming CEOs from outside the bank take a larger earnings bath than …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank's credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

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

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … for public finances. Regimes for the restructuring and resolution of banks, financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops …, seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and to increase the costs of leverage. This …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank's credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

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 …

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 …