of the European Union (EU) bank deposits and loans. Despite their importance, little is known about the relationship … between bank stability and competition for these small credit institutions. Does competition affect the stability of … relationship between competition and bank soundness (both in the short and long run) in the European cooperative banking between …

policymakers to consider policies that discourage banks from getting larger, including explicit caps on bank size. However, limits … presents new estimates of returns to scale for U.S. banks based on nonparametric, local-linear estimation of bank cost, revenue … high percentage of banks faced increasing returns to scale in cost in both years, including most of the 10 largest bank …

their ability to transform deposits from households into loans to firms. Bank size differences emerge endogenously in the … model, and in steady state, the induced bank size distribution matches two stylized facts in the data: bigger banks borrow …

This paper examines how the impact of financial crises on bank earnings volatility (proxied by the volatility of return … on assets) varies with bank size and market concentration. Using fixed effects panel regression analysis for more than … systems. These results are robust to the use of absolute and relative bank size definitions, different types of banks, and …

We examine whether bank earnings volatility depends on bank size and the degree of concentration in the banking sector … quality of management, leverage, and diversification, we find that bank size reduces return volatility. The negative impact of … bank size on bank earnings volatility decreases (in absolute terms) with market concentration. We also find that larger …

banks and find no evidence that this shift in the bank business model harms bank profitability. To the contrary, a higher … share of non-traditional bank income is associated with a higher profitability. The increase in profitability does not seem … to come at the cost of substantially larger bank-level risk taking, at least not for large banks, which are the banks …

We show that the effect of diversification on systemic risk exposures varies with bank size and a country …