Am 5. Juni 2019 veranstaltete der Finanzausschuss des Deutschen Bundestags eine öffentliche Anhörung zu zwei Anträgen der Fraktionen der FDP und der AfD zum Thema „Target“. Der AfD-Antrag betont die mit den Target-Forderungen der Bundesbank verbundenen Risiken und fordert,...

Am 5. Juni 2019 veranstaltete der Finanzausschuss des Deutschen Bundestags eine öffentliche Anhörung zu zwei Anträgen der Fraktionen der FDP und der AfD zum Thema „Target“. Die Anträge betonen die Risiken der Target-Salden für die Bundesbank und untermalen die betriebswirtschaftliche...

Am 5. Juni 2019 veranstaltete der Finanzausschuss des Deutschen Bundestags eine öffentliche Anhörung zu zwei Anträgen der Fraktionen der FDP und der AfD zum Thema "Target". Der AfD-Antrag betont die mit den Target-Forderungen der Bundesbank verbundenen Risiken und fordert, "Target-Kredite"...

Am 5. Juni 2019 veranstaltete der Finanzausschuss des Deutschen Bundestags eine öffentliche Anhörung zu zwei Anträgen der Fraktionen der FDP und der AfD zum Thema „Target“. Die Anträge betonen die Risiken der Target-Salden für die Bundesbank und untermalen die betriebswirtschaftliche...

In an influential paper, La Porta, Lopez-De-Silanes and Shleifer (2002) argued that public ownership of banks is associated with lower GDP growth. We show that this relationship does not hold for all countries, but depends on a country’s financial development and political institutions. Public...

This paper shows that bonus contracts may arise endogenously as a response to agency problems within banks, and analyzes how compensation schemes change in reaction to anticipated bail-outs. If there is a risk-shifting problem, bail-out expectations lead to steeper bonus schemes and even more...

This paper discusses the relationship between bank size and risk-taking under Pillar I of the New Basel Capital Accord. Using a model with imperfect competition and moral hazard, we find that small banks (and hence small borrowers) may profit from the introduction of an internal ratings based...

Using monthly balance-sheet data of all major German credit banks, we analyze deposit with-drawals and bank failures in the German banking and currency crisis of 1931. We find that de-posit withdrawals were driven by the run on the currency, but were also related to banks’ liquidity positions;...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of government bail-out policies on banks outside the safety net. We construct a measure of bail-out perceptions by using rating information. From there, we construct the market shares of insured competitor banks for any given bank, and analyze the...

We present a banking model with imperfect competition in which borrowers’ access to credit is improved when banks are able to transfer credit risks. However, the market for credit risk transfer (CRT) works smoothly only if the quality of loans is public information. If the quality of loans is...