Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …

rate of growth of capital asset or income whether source of borrowing is bank or money lender. This is then formalized in a …

This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …

of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of … the German economy for the past 60 years. We find no evidence for a negative impact of bank capital on business loans …

granular effects: if markets are very concentrated in terms of the size distribution of banks, idiosyncratic shocks at the bank … of itself, and it may also influence concentration in banking and thus the impact of bank-specific shocks for the … micro-macro panel dataset. Our research has three main findings: First, bank-level shocks significantly impact on GDP …

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

impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and … specialization. We employ a unique data set containing detailed information on bank-firm relationships and industry classification …