German banks experienced a merger wave throughout the 1990s. However, the success of bank mergers remains a continuous …

different banks as being best or worst performers. Our main conclusion is that efficiency studies in general and bank efficiency …

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 …