experiment conducted in a bank. In the treatment group managers obtained access to objective performance measures which raised …

such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan … shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …