In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …

German savers are renowned for preferring safe, long-term investments, thus providing patient capital, with bank … heterogeneity depending on banks' governance structures. The announcement of a state guarantee for bank deposits following the …

Using granular data of German banks for the 2003 to 2018 period, we analyse the determinants of bank rates on retail … deposits. We find that a bank's rate on sight deposits is especially low if the bank operates in rural districts, if it is not … exposed to strong competition and if it provides much service. Regarding the rates on term deposits, we find that the bank …

Exploiting confidential data on individual German bank balance-sheets, I analyse what characterises a bank that opts to …

We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how – in times of crisis – depositors react to a bank … nationalization, re-privatization and an accompanying increase in deposit insurance. Nationalization slows depositors fleeing the bank …

risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …

finance premium, while a BGG model generates too low volatility. The full model also matches the procyclicality of bank …

The role of bank capital as a propagation channel of shocks is strongly pronounced in recent macroeconomic models. In … this paper, we show how the evolution of bank capital depends on the share of non-state-contingent assets in banks’ balance …