Employing data on 3,943 banks from the EU-15 between 2013 and 2020, this paper empirically analyzes the relationship between banking market consolidation, market power and banking stability, separately for the loan and deposit market. We initially find that European banks follow a loss-leader...

We explore the impact of concentration in the banking markets on the capital structure of publicly quoted non-financial firms in the EU15 over the period 1997- 2005, an era marked by intensive merger activity in the banking sector. Our main finding is a negative and significant relationship...

In Germany a public discussion on the power of banks has been going on for decades now with the term power having at least two meanings. On the one hand, it denotes the power of banks to control public corporations through direct shareholdings or the exercise of proxy votes this is the power of...