How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times of distress and crisis, featuring the different...

How does bank distress impact their customers' probability of default and trade credit availability? We address this question by looking at a unique sample of German firms from 2000 to 2011. We follow their firm-bank relationships through times of distress and crisis, featuring the different...

Die Finanzmarktkrise hat Schwächen in der Bankenaufsicht deutlich werden lassen. Der Artikel befasst sich mit vier Ansatzpunkten für eine Weiterentwicklung der Bankenaufsicht: Benötigt wird eine stärker an Prinzipien orientierte Bankenaufsicht anstatt starrer Regeln für die...

We examine the saving behavior of banks' retail customers. Our unique dataset comprises the contract and cash flow information for approximately 2.2 million individual contracts from 1991 to 2010. We find that contractual rewards, i.e., qualified interest payments, and government subsidies,...