gesamtwirtschaftliche Entwicklung spielen. Dies gilt offenbar vor allem dann, wenn die Bankenregulierung schwach ist und Banken nicht …

regulation proposals in the Basel III framework with respect to this literature. A number of shortcomings in the current …

Using count data on the number of bank failures in US states during the 1960 to 2006 period, this paper endeavors to … regulation can explain some of the fragility in banking. Assuming that variables are predetermined, lagged values provide … instruments to absorb potential endogeneity between the number of bank failures and economic and regulatory conditions. Results …

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the failure of one bank can undermine the public’s confidence in the … forbearance to the initially failing bank in the hope that it - and hence other vulnerable banks - survives. By contrast, public …

In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a … particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a … limited by regulation largely to retail deposits and mortgages. Graphic television news pictures showed very long queues …

Europe’s financial structure has become strongly bank-based – far more so than in other economies. We document that an … paper concludes by discussing policy solutions to Europe’s “bank bias”, which include reducing regulatory favouritism …

implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …