branch numbers across countries and the opening and closing of branches, bank fragility and consolidation are surprisingly at … important role than internal processing technology. General bank level factors are more important than local internet access …. Bank internal use of technology appears to be more relevant than use of technology by competitors. While large banks rely …

lower interest rates on bank loans of the same maturity than non-issuer firms, suggesting an improvement in their bargaining … power with banks. Issuer firms also reduce the amount of used bank credit, expand their total and fixed assets, and raise …

comprehensive sample that combines an original set of bank-specific bailout events with balance sheets of key affected and non …

We employ proprietary data from a large bank to analyze how – in times of crisis – depositors react to a bank … nationalization, re-privatization and an accompanying increase in deposit insurance. Nationalization slows depositors fleeing the bank …

We study the impact on bank merger activity of the strengthening in merger control legislation introduced in Europe … between 1989 and 2004. We find that strengthening merger control increases the abnormal returns on bank target stocks in the …

We analyze how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements a ect banks' balance sheet adjustments as well as bank … lending to the non-financial corporate sector. To do so, we relate Pillar 2 capital requirements to bank balance sheet data, a … examine how time-varying bank-specific capital requirements affect banks' balance sheet composition. Subsequently, we …