deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … derived from imperfect competition in markets for financial services is implied, which banks exercise vis-à-vis their loan and … tries to shed some light on the historical development and current state of bank regulation in Germany. In so doing, it …

This paper uses matched bank-firm-level data and the 2014 depreciation of the euro to show that exchange rate … depreciations lead to increased bank loan supply of large banks with significant net foreign asset exposure. This increase in …

geographical regions measured by the Herfindahl Index. To explore this issue, we use a unique data set of the individual bank loan …

This paper analyzes how bank lending to the private nonbank sector responds …

estimation. The analysis allows to distinguish between rents that accrue due to single bank lending, rents that accrue due to … relationship lending, and rents that accrue due to the elimination of competition among multiple lenders. We find the relationship … against hold-up. -- Banking Competition ; Coordination ; Distress ; Credit Spread ; Hold-up …