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

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 …

-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from "banking crisis" (BC) indicators employed in many empirical … studies, which are constructed using primarily information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress … that BC indicators actually measure lagged policy responses to systemic bank shocks. We then re-examine the impact of …

Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank …

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 …

An entrepreneur chooses a relationship bank or market finance. The advantage of bank finance is that the quality of the … that the bank continues inefficient projects, i.e., zombie lending occurs. In the short run - for a given contract - a drop … in the market interest rate increases zombification. The bank adapts the contract to this drop in the long run, and …

In this paper we analyse the bank merger between DnB and Gjensidige Bank in 2003, ranked by market share as number one … and number three in the Norwegian bank market. Focusing on loans to firms, our difference-in-differences analysis shows no …