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Competition and Stability in Banking
Vives, Xavier - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094726
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Sovereign Default Risk and Banks in a Monetary Union
Uhlig, Harald - CESifo - 2013
This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877795
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs: The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
Torre, Augusto de la; Pería, María Soledad Martínez; … - CESifo - 2009
factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the … banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs due to the significant competition in the corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979421
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Drivers and Obstacles to Banking SMEs : The Role of Competition and the Institutional Framework
de la Torre, Augusto - 2009
factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the … banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs due to the significant competition in the corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159698
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Government Guarantees and Bank Risk Taking Incentives
Fischer, Markus - 2014
This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of guarantees for German Landesbanken which results in lower credit ratings, higher funding costs, and a loss in franchise value. This removal was announced in 2001, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055384
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Taxing Banks : An Evaluation of the German Bank Levy
Buch, Claudia M. - 2014
Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055394
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Loan Loss Provision : Some Empirical Evidence for Italian Banks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001-2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management, signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024740
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Regulatory Arbitrage and the Efficiency of Banking Regulation
Boyer, Pierre - 2016
We study the efficiency of banking regulation under financial integration. Banks freely choose the jurisdiction where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991941
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Sovereign Default Risk and Banks in a Monetary Union
Uhlig, Harald - 2013
This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank, and that their sovereign partially backs up any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076729
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Creditor Passivity : The Effects of Bank Competition and Institutions on the Strategic Use of Bankruptcy Filings
Hainz, Christa - 2021
about a firm's type to its competitors. Thereby, asymmetric information between banks is reduced and bank competition … intensifies. We find that the better the institutions and the more competitive the banking sector, the higher the bank's incentive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316824