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Birchler, Urs; Maechler, Andréa M. - 2001

whether depositors monitor their banks and withdraw their savings deposits whenever the fundamentals of their bank are no … longer satisfactory. We use a panel of bank-specific data on 250 Swiss banks over the period 1987-1998. We find considerable … evidence of market discipline, in the sense that depositors are sensitive to bank-specific fundamentals, to institutional …

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The Performance of Universal Banks: Evidence from Switzerland

Rime, Bertrand; Stiroh, Kevin J. - 2001

This paper examines the production structure of Swiss banks in the period 1996-99. Using a variety of output specifications, we find evidence of large relative inefficiencies across Swiss banks. The results show the importance of accounting for the broad range of activities that universal banks...

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The Relationship between Risk and Capital in Swiss commercial Banks: A Panel Study

Bichsel, Robert; Blum, Jürg - 2002

In this paper we investigate the relationship between changes in risk and changes in leverage for a panel of Swiss banks. Using market data for risk and both accounting and market data for capital for the period between 1990 and 2002, we find a positive correlation between changes in capital and...

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