This paper studies the sectoral and geographical dimensions of the response of bank lending to sectoral growth. We use … several bank-level datasets provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank for the 1996-2002 period. Our results show that bank …. Moreover, we find that the response of lending depends on bank characteristics such as the banking groups, the banks? asset …

, and the bank approval disparity is also larger in more racially biased counties. We conclude that insofar as automation by …

to non-banks do not transform sight deposits into illiquid assets as intensively as savings banks with high shares of non-bank … how bank size and the individual bank's position in the interbank market affect liquid assets. …

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 …

whether depositors monitor their banks and withdraw their savings deposits whenever the fundamentals of their bank are no … longer satisfactory. We use a panel of bank-specific data on 250 Swiss banks over the period 1987-1998. We find considerable … evidence of market discipline, in the sense that depositors are sensitive to bank-specific fundamentals, to institutional …

financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing … lower bank-average deposits per branch and roughly equal volumes of small business loans per branch, but no reduction in net …-sized branch networks had lower bank-average deposits and small business loan volume per branch, but had lower net deposit costs …