paid to repos is, becomes apparent by examining the financial statement of one German bank. It was noticed, that the … information provided on repos was not too extensive, even though repos ac-counted for approximately 39% of the bank's total assets …

modification activity from each bank’s public regulatory filings so that banks could modify loans free from capital market scrutiny … posited by bank regulators. To test this question we exploit the fact that the SEC still required public banks to disclose the … modifications, meaning that the type of bank that faces the most capital market scrutiny (public banks) had to disclose loan …

rate of growth of capital asset or income whether source of borrowing is bank or money lender. This is then formalized in a …

rents already. Thus our results suggest that in the bank-dominated financial system of Germany, in which banks intensely …

. Business cycle effects, in particular lagged GDP growth, display a substantial procyclical impact on bank profits. These …

was characterized as a bank-centered economy, but the banking system did not function well in the 1990's. Responding to …

We provide the first empirical tests for financial protectionism, defined as a nationalistic change in bank's lending … foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …

bank profitability: the structure-conduct-performance hypothesis, the efficient-structure hypothesis and the relative …