This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

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 …

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 …

This paper explores the extent to which interest risk exposure is priced in bank margins. Our contribution to the … for earnings from bank-individual maturity transformation strategies, we find all banks to charge additional fees for …

financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …

minimum standard is unlikely to exhibit adverse consequences for credit supply and bank profitability. …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … for public finances. Regimes for the restructuring and resolution of banks, financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops …, seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and to increase the costs of leverage. This …