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 …

(CAPM) to price assets in different market structures. Second, we use our model to analyze whether when markets are … partially segmented using the local or the global CAPM yields significant errors in the estimation of the cost of capital for a …

choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against … larger, choose riskier portfolios, and have less equity. Binding capital requirements or levies on bank borrowing are shown …

How does uncertainty affect the costs of raising finance in the bond market and via bank loans? Empirically, this paper … finds that heightened uncertainty is accompanied by an increase in corporate bond yields and a decrease in bank lending …

Concentrated ownership of large listed companies is widespread throughout the world, and Germany is typical in this …

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 … are then related directly to the magnitude of bank losses in the recent financial crisis. Our data confirms that …