This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model where banks are exposed to credit and … an inverted U–shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare, with their … welfare costs than taxes on non-deposit liabilities. -- Bank Regulation ; Taxation ; Dynamic Banking Model …