The paper tests the effect of competition on bank risk-taking for a sample of up to 800 banks worldwide over the period … 1995-2010. Following the theoretical literature on bank competition and risk more closely than previous empirical research …, we measure competition at the bank level and separate the effects of competition in deposit and loan markets. We also …

In this paper we revisit the long debate on the risk effects of bank competition and propose a new approach to the … empirical estimation of the relation between deposit market competition and bank risk. Our approach accounts for the opportunity … of banks to shift to wholesale funding when deposit market competition is intense. The analysis is based on a unique …

In this paper we revisit the long debate on the risk effects of bank competition and propose a new approach to the … empirical estimation of the relation between deposit market competition and bank risk. Our approach accounts for the opportunity … of banks to shift to wholesale funding when deposit market competition is intense. The analysis is based on a unique …

of these instruments in the competition between banking firms. We use a duopolistic version of the industrial … organization approach to banking to find out that credit derivatives may influence banking competition. For this result to hold …

In this paper we relate a bank's choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …

instant-access deposits. Exploiting variation in information acquisition for different brands of the same bank, we show that … complementarities. Our results point to a previously undocumented source of self-fulfilling bank fragility …

In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …