We develop a model of bank risk-taking with strategic sovereign default risk. Domestic banks invest in real projects … their default risks through purchases of bonds. But, for high debt levels, this influence is lost since bank and government …

How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this … question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times … of distress and crisis, featuring the different transmission of bank distress shocks into already weakened firm balance …

Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …

How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this … question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times … of distress and crisis, featuring the different transmission of bank distress shocks into already weakened firm balance …

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 …

We analyze the problem of a policy authority (PA) that must decide when to resolve a troubled bank whose underlying … solvency is uncertain. Delaying resolution increases the chance that information arrives that reveals the bank's true solvency … efficient resolution decision following the arrival of information. Providing the bank with liquidity support buys the PA time …

This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … competition, contestability and market power, each corresponding to a different contextual level of a bank's competitive … theoretical properties of the indicators for market power and competition. Using the Lerner Index as a proxy for bank …