', if fiscal consolidation is combined with a program for bank recovery and for competitiveness and growth. The second …

untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign … of bank failure is partly borne by taxpayers in the bank's home countries. Moreover, each bank chooses the share of its … lending allocated between domestic and foreign firms, but the bank's overall loan volume is fixed by a capital requirement set …

ratio) and size (TBA) of the industry are linked to lower sovereign risk in general. Foreign bank penetration and …

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 …

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 …