In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised … economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy?as financial intermediary, as lender to the … corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance system. Further, German banks are supervised by two supervisory …

that failed during the 2007/2008 crisis. Excess equity returns in response to bank bailouts are overall negative and … significantly lower for connected banks …

that failed during the 2007/2008 crisis. Excess equity returns in response to bank bailouts are overall negative and … significantly lower for connected banks …

analyzing only developed countries. We suggest here that banks' relative ability to intermediate funds cost-efficiently is a …

to firms are determined at the EU level. Therefore, we use it to identify bank outcomes. Banks with relationships to more … whether government subsidies to firms affect quantity and quality of bank lending. We combine recipient firms under the … Improvement of Regional Economic Structures program (GRW) with their local banks during 1998-2019. The modalities of GRW subsidies …

necessarily made banks less risky. Yet, surprisingly little is known about the actual link between bank internationalization, bank … countries tends to increase bank risk. Fourth, the impact of internationalization differs across banks from different banking …Recent developments on international financial markets have called the benefits of bank globalization into question …

significantly higher average turnover rates but also finds that they are driven by CEOs at poorly performing banks. Banks …, we do not find any reduction in risk-taking at the bank level, one purported aim of the regulation …

Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank's own implicit input price … estimate CE and PE of German banks between 1993 and 2003. Our main findings are threefold. First, after accounting for … systematic differences across banks, mean CE is sensitive to alternative input prices. Second, distortions of mean PE due to …