banking sectors to domestic government debt, thus strengthening or weakening the sovereign-bank nexus. To do so, we construct … banks’ exposure to domestic sovereign bonds in the periphery countries and thus deepens the sovereign-bank nexus. By …

capital standards, and cost of bank equity determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns …

quasi-exogenous increases in bank size in postwar Germany. I show that firms did not grow faster after their relationship …, but worked with riskier borrowers. Bank managers benefited through higher salaries and media attention. The paper presents …

bank and a crowdlending platform and show that the entry of crowdlending can induce a switching effect as well as a credit …

competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by … incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …