By using short-term direct finance firms of the highest credit quality exposethemselves to rollover risk in the public debt markets. Firms insure themselvesagainst this risk by securing backup lines of credit from banks that they mayuse should market liquidity dry up. In a first step, this paper...

This paper sets out to help explain why estimates of asset correlations based on equityprices tend to be considerably higher than estimates based on default rates. Resolving thisempirical puzzle is highly important because, rstly, asset correlations are a key driver ofcredit risk and, secondly,...

Evidence on the interdependency between monetary policy and the state of thebanking system is scarce. We suggest an integrated micro-macro approach with twocore virtues. First, we measure the probability of bank distress directly at the banklevel. Second, we integrate a microeconomic hazard...

Despite extensive research interest in the last decade, the banking literature has notreached a consensus on the impact of bank mergers on deposit rates. In particular,results on the dynamics of deposit rates surrounding bank mergers vary substantiallyacross studies. In this paper, we aim for a...

This paper describes the rst thorough analysis of the interest risk of German banks on anindividual bank level. We develop a new method that is based on time series of accountingbaseddata to quantify the interest risk of banks and apply it to analyze the German bankingsystem. We find evidence...