This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … competition, contestability and market power, each corresponding to a different contextual level of a bank s competitive … stability of individual banks. Instead, our results show that the degree of competition affects bank risk in different ways …

contribution is two-fold. First, we expand the theory of granularity to encompass the Bertrand competition frequently used in … right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. Also, the presence of big banks as measured by high market …

outside bank. In equilibrium, the borrower's ability to refinance depends both on the competitiveness of the local banking …, households are more likely to refinance externally if they already have a relation with more than one bank, but the effect is …

equilibrium model, and show that - consistent with our empirical finding - a monetary easing implies an expansion of bank lending …

quantity and the composition of bank lending. We find that credit supplied by banks that introduced the model-based approach …

This paper studies regulatory competition in the banking sector in a model where banks are heterogeneous and taxpayers … strictly regulated country. In this model, regulatory competition in capital standards may lead to a `race to the top' for two … governments are heavily concerned about the tax revenue losses arising from bank failures, strict capital requirements are imposed …