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Trade and Credit Reallocation: How Banks Help Shape Comparative Advantage
Keuschnigg, Christian; Kogler, Michael - 2018
investment in expanding, innovative sectors. Structural parameters of a country’s banking system thus influence comparative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957214
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Banking regulation and prompt corrective action
Freixas, Xavier; Parigi, Bruno Maria - 2007
We explore the rationale for regulatory rules that prohibit banks from developing some of their natural activities when their capital level is low, as epitomized by the US Prompt Corrective Action (PCA). This paper is built on two insights. First, in a moral hazard setting, capital requirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264241
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The price of liquidity: bank characteristics and market conditions
Fecht, Falko; Nyborg, Kjell G.; Rocholl, Jörg - 2009
We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique to this paper, we also have data on individual banks' reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us to gauge the extent to which a bank is short or long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264580
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Demographic change and bank profitability: empirical evidence from German savings banks
Berlemann, Michael; Oestmann, Marco; Thum, Marcel - 2010
, populations are shrinking and ageing at the same time. This paper explores the impact of demographic change on the banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271784
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Extracting leading indicators of bank fragility from market prices : Estonia focus
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael; Männasoo, Kadri - 2006
Banking reform has proved to be one of the most problematic elements of economic transition in central and Eastern … Europe. Therefore the paper considers the development of the Estonian banking sector and derives individual banks´ fragility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271924
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Subprime crisis and board (in-)competence : private vs. public banks in Germany
Hau, Harald; Thum, Marcel - 2009
We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the biographical background of 593 supervisory board members in the 29...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276835
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Climate Finance Intermediation: Interest Spread Effects in a Climate Policy Model
Lessmann, Kai; Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2020
Interest rates are central determinants of saving and investment decisions. Costly financial intermediation distort these price signals by creating a spread between the interest rates on deposits and loans with substantial effects on the supply of funds and the demand for credit. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269450
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The Relevance of Banks to the European Stock Market
Kick, Andreas; Rottmann, Horst - 2022
the market; on the other hand, problems in the banking sector can send shock waves through the entire economy. Given this … prominent role, it is not surprising that Pereira and Rua (2018) found that the health of the banking sector exerts an influence …-financials is essential to evaluate the risk emanating from an unhealthy banking sector and should be considered in new regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353364
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Bank Consolidation, Interest Rates, and Risk: A Post-Merger Analysis Based on Loan-Level Data from the Corporate Sector
Juranek, Steffen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Ulsaker, Simen A. - 2021
effects of mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector to be modest. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799780
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Competition and Risk Taking in Local Bank Markets: Evidence from the Business Loans Segment
Canta, Chiara; Nilsen, Øivind A.; Ulsaker, Simen A.; … - 2023
This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377423