behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. The bank is exposed to credit risk and may use credit default swaps (CDS …) for hedging purposes. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk-sensitive way: Compared …. Under the Substitution Approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its total …

, greater safety for banks, as traditional portfolio and banking theory would suggest? This paper investigates the link between … banks? profitability (ROA) and their portfolio diversification across different industries, broader economic sectors and … geographical regions measured by the Herfindahl Index. To explore this issue, we use a unique data set of the individual bank loan …

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce … banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue … bank managers and shareholders becomes less severe. Consequently, banks' capital structure needs to be less concerned with …

a large, unbalanced panel of German banks including 32,023 bank-year observations. We see an increase in the use of GBR …

estimation. The analysis allows to distinguish between rents that accrue due to single bank lending, rents that accrue due to …

assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank's portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of … distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm's main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk …

assessments arising from the industry level and the main bank's portfolio. We test our theoretical predictions for a sample of … distributed between inventors and investors. As a result, bank lending for firm R&D has been rare. However, firms can signal the … potential to alter the risk assessment of the firm's main bank. Additionally, we explore heterogeneities in these risk …