This paper studies the country-level reaction of bank credit default swap (“CDS”) spreads and stock prices to bailout … announcements in the US and five European countries in October 2008. Bailouts announcements are associated with bank CDS spreads … narrowing, both for domestic and foreign banks, pointing to an important role for cross-border exposures. Movements in bank …

This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. After a short overview about financial regulation in … Germany in general, the paper focuses on the most important development in the area of capital adequacy regulation from the …

This paper examines capital adequacy regulation in Germany. The first part reviews capital adequacy regulation from the …

-based informal co- and self-regulation through domestic (gentlemen's) agreements underpinned West German bank internationalisation …

This paper examines the impact of bank heterogeneity on the assessment of systemic risk in the context of the German …' heterogeneity and to signal systemic risk reliably regardless of different bank types’ individual characteristics. For the … assessment, currently employed systemic risk indicators are applied to bank-type-specific data for six different bank types from …

tries to shed some light on the historical development and current state of bank regulation in Germany. In so doing, it …In Germany a public discussion on the power of banks has been going on for decades now with the term power having at … deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of …