This paper studies the impact of bank mergers on firm-bank lending relationships using information from individual loan … contracts in Belgium. We analyse the effects of bank mergers on the probability of borrowers maintaining their lending … relationships and on their ability to continue tapping bank credit. The environment reflects a number of interesting features: high …

countries. The European Central Bank (ECB), jointly with the Banking Supervision Committee (BSC), has an interest in monitoring …

deposit customers. In the past, bank regulation has often been blamed for undermining competition and the functioning of … tries to shed some light on the historical development and current state of bank regulation in Germany. In so doing, it … tries to embed the analysis of bank regulation in a more general industrial organization framework. For every regulated …

what non-bank shareholders achieve. Proxy-voting rights apparently do not provide a significant means for banks to exert …

addressing differences among different bank groups. We use three empirical models to focus on the following aspects: the time …

We examine the benefits of objective performance measurement in a field experiment conducted in a retail bank. At the …

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 …