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 …

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 …

are more likely to enter foreign markets by means of foreign direct investment. We combine detailed proprietary bank …-level data on the international activities of all German banks with publicly available bank micro data from possible destination …

likelihood of bank distress makes banks reduce their on-balance sheet interest rate exposure and simultaneously intensify their …

We use a unique data set that comprises each bank’s bids in the Eurosystem’s main refinancing operations and its … that a bank’s willingness-to-pay is a good indicator for the probability that this bank draws on the LOLR facility. Our …

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 …