We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … ask two questions: i) how does capital regulation affect (endogenous) entry; and ii) how do (exogenous) changes in the … competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

Reforms of financial regulation after the crisis of 2007-2009 raise the question of what is the relation between … financial regulators and competition authorities. Should competition authorities play a role in financial regulation? Should …-specific regulation involves authorities actually prescribing desired modes of behavior. The ongoing nature of relations makes regulators …

deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … tries to shed some light on the historical development and current state of bank regulation in Germany. In so doing, it … tries to embed the analysis of bank regulation in a more general industrial organization framework. For every regulated …

Regulation is often funded with fees paid by regulated firms, potentially creating incentive problems. We use this … that pay higher fees may face more lenient regulation, when leniency increases regulatory budgets in the short term. Our … novel dataset on fees and regulatory actions, we find that firms that pay higher fees face more lenient regulation, which …

Hub-and-spoke regulation, where a central regulator with legal power over firms delegates monitoring to local … findings suggest that field level interaction is an important part of regulation, and that distancing supervisors from banks to …