rents already. Thus our results suggest that in the bank-dominated financial system of Germany, in which banks intensely …

-European Bank mergers. In this paper we identify other more fundamental reasons for a limited degree of cross-country integration in …-border bank mergers. The paper derives the impact of different underlying stochastic structures on the optimal structure of cross … regional bank mergers. Imposing a symmetry restriction on the underlying stochastic structure of liquidity shocks we find that …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce … banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue … bank managers and shareholders becomes less severe. Consequently, banks' capital structure needs to be less concerned with …

a large, unbalanced panel of German banks including 32,023 bank-year observations. We see an increase in the use of GBR …