We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank’s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding … a disadvantage in the crisis, as inter-bank and capital markets froze. Besides, the more an affiliate abroad takes … recourse to intra-bank funding in the crisis, the more it becomes dependent on a stable deposit and long-term wholesale funding …

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model where banks are exposed to credit and … an inverted U–shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare, with their … welfare costs than taxes on non-deposit liabilities. -- Bank Regulation ; Taxation ; Dynamic Banking Model …

This paper examines the international credit portfolios of German banks. We construct a bank-country panel from a … unique dataset for a representative set of countries and ask why banks leave diversification opportunities unexploited in … some countries. Controlling for bank heterogeneity, we analyse the deviations of actual portfolios from a mean …

We examine the role of bank balance sheet strength in the transmission of financial sector shocks to the real economy … bank credit. We find that banks with strong balance sheets were better able to maintain lending during the crisis. In … that strong bank balance sheets are key for the recovery of credit following crises, and provide support for regulatory …

We use a unique dataset with bank clients’ security holdings for all German banks to examine how macroeconomic shocks … credit-supply shocks which arise from reductions in borrowing abilities during bank distress. We document heterogeneous …-supply shocks at the bank level (caused by bank distress) result in lower concentration, for both households and non …