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 …

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

concerned about being induced to finance bad risk projects when conditions deteriorate. A monopoly bank provides the socially … schlechten Projekte zu finanzieren. Eine monopolistische Bank leistet die sozial-optimale Auswahl guter Risiken, aber die …

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 …

with an income stress test in the form of dynamic panel data regressions. Based on a stress scenario that extends …

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 …

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