We investigate the relationship between bank complexity and bank risk-taking using German banking data over the period …

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 …

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 …

competition. Here, we employ a novel approach to account for IRS that are both unexpected and effective for a bank’s business … theory that monopolistic firms undersupply the market when utilizing their high pricing power in the bank competition …–liquidity creation nexus. While positive IRS per se lead to an increase in bank liquidity creation, we find that a high bank …

bank (G-SIB) envisaged by regulators has an impact on the CDS prices of these banks. We find evidence that the CDS spreads … of a G-SIB bank increase (decrease) after the announcement of a higher (lower) capital surcharge. However, this effect is … contributes to the debate on whether being designated as a G-SIB bank necessarily leads to implicit "too-big-to-fail" subsidies …

bank-level data for German banks, we find evidence that a bank's exposure to interest rate risk depends on its presumed … optimization horizon. The longer the presumed optimization horizon is, the more the bank is exposed to interest rate risk in its … exposure to interest rate risk. The more a bank is exposed to the risk of a decline in the interest rate level, the higher its …

unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of … regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank … profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure …

degree of centralisation. Whereas no such bank exists in the UK any longer and real savings banks in Spain have almost …. Short operational and (especially) functional distance and embeddedness in supportive regional bank associations. Short … regional level and reduce the need for standardisation, centralisation and bank mergers in times when interest rates are low. …