geographical regions measured by the Herfindahl Index. To explore this issue, we use a unique data set of the individual bank loan …

parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important …

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 …

subset of large German banks, we estimate the target level and the adjustment speed of the capital ratio for each bank …

on bank credit and as they represent the vast majority of the corporate sector reduced credit availability for those …-sized enterprises (SME). We measure the financing opportunities of SMEs based on the bank debt/assets ratio and the logarithmized credit … size and control both explicitly for bank mergers and for the increase in the average bank size in the course of the …

problems involved. In this study, we analyze the effect of German bank mergers in the period 1995-2000 on banks' profitability …

multiple technology regimes and group membership probabilities. The latter are conditioned on six bank traits of German banks …. Wir ermitteln die Wahrscheinlichkeit der Gruppenzugehörigkeit (GZW) je Bank in Abhängigkeit von sechs individuellen …