of a bank byabout two basis points. We further find that some banks have already reacheda size that makes them too …-big-to-be-rescued. While the price distortion forthese banks decreases the existence of banks that are considered to be toobig-to-rescue raises …

but also, in some countries, smaller banks with alocal business focus.Increasing competition forced banks to look for … visible implications of these developments. As a result, the numberof banks dropped considerably in many industrialized …

Evidence on the interdependency between monetary policy and the state of thebanking system is scarce. We suggest an …

Competitive shocks can erode the customer base and thus the information pool of banks. Inferiorinformation quality also …. Recent theories conjecture that banks can mitigatethe erosion of their information advantages by a more intensive use of … information technology (IT).We use a unique dataset on the use of IT for a large sample of regional banks to test the effect …

of Slovenian banks.The paper exploits the implications and consequences of Basel II for Slovenian banking sector. In … orderto gain an insight into Slovenian banks a survey was conducted just three months before theimplementation of Basel II. …