This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

competitor banks for any given bank, and analyze the impact of this variable on banks’ risk-taking behavior, using a large sample … bank bail-outs on banks' risk-taking behavior. -- Government bail-out ; implicit and explicit government guarantees …