German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

Theoretically, bank's loan monitoring activity hinges critically on its capitalisation. To proxy for monitoring … governance of the firm. Exploiting granular bank-firm relationships observed in the syndicated loan market, we document …

, we do not find any reduction in risk-taking at the bank level, one purported aim of the regulation …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …

. Using administrative plant and bank data, we test whether APPs impinge on industry dynamics in terms of plant entry and exit …