We investigate the relationship between bank complexity and bank risk-taking using German banking data over the period …

What is the impact of a sudden and sizeable increase in bank capital requirements on the lending activity by directly … affected banks and by non-affected non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs)? To answer this question, we apply a difference … activities, in riskier and more competitive borrower segments, but NBFIs do not seem to rely on increased bank funding to finance …

non-traded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the … risk of bank failure is partly borne by taxpayers in the banks' home countries. Moreover, each bank chooses the allocation … of its lending between domestic and foreign firms, while the bank's overall loan volume is fixed by a capital requirement …

financially dependent industries. Finally, we show that integration increases the similarity of bank lending fluctuations between …