% of the U.S. mortgage market. Exploiting within-servicer variation in these data, we find that bank-held loans are 26% to …, modifications of bank-held loans are more efficient: conditional on a modification, bank-held loans have lower post …

impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular, results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers … vary substantially across studies. In this paper, we aim for a comprehensive empirical analysis of a bank merger's impact … monthly frequency for the time period 1997-2006. These data are matched with individual bank and local market characteristics …

bank. The results suggest that capital requirements may only be of second-order importance for banks? capital structures …

Nachdem die Immobilienkrise in den USA auch Deutschland erreicht und die IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG sowie die …

This paper examines the common factors that drive the returns of U.S. bank holding companies from 1997 to 2005. We … that the market factor clearly dominates in explaining bank returns, followed by the Fama-French factors. The bank … tend to load in the same direction on the first component. Relative to the returns of large firms in other sectors, bank …

assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to domestic bank spillovers. The results suggest …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. …