lending to the banks' owners, although they strongly maintained otherwise in autumn 2007. Neither the FSA nor the Central Bank …

In emerging Asia, banks constitute the dominant source of financing consumption and investment, and bank balance sheets …

haircut increases are simulated. Insufficient Eurosystem funding could lead Greece to abandon the euro zone …

. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then … concentration is associated with a positive and significant relationship between bank-level credit growth and aggregate growth of …

right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. Also, the presence of big banks as measured by high market …

capital for firms worldwide on three particularly export-oriented industry sectors in Germany. Second, the impact of this …

increase in length of either the annual report or the risk report is positively associated with the bank-specific cost of …