We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel …

fact, the largest when the bank is foreign. Our evidence suggest that investors value relationships with more competitive … applicable also to the European markets where regulatory and economic borders do not coincide and bank identities and reputation … seem to matter a great deal. -- Relationship banking ; bank organization ; bank origin ; loan announcement return …

This paper analyzes the effects of bank mergers on bank-firm relationships. Using matched bank-firm level data, I find … positive effects of mergers for borrowers that continue the lending relationship with the consolidated bank. On average …

resultant credit restriction by turning to other banks. Importantly the bank-lending channel is notably stronger when we account …

We analyze the impact of efficiency on bank risk. We also consider whether bank capital has an effect on this … supporting the bad management and efficiency version of the moral hazard hypotheses. In contrast, bank efficiency improvements … contribute to shore up bank capital levels. Our findings suggest that banks lagging behind in their efficiency levels might …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved timeinvariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks' capital structures and that banks' leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …. -- Bank capital ; capital regulation ; capital structure ; leverage …

this policy through banks. This paper examines the role of bank liquidity, capitalization and market power as internal … monetary policy change on bank performance is also considered. The empirical analysis, using large panel datasets for the … rates by disaggregating down to the individual bank level. This is achieved by the use of a Local GMM technique that also …