Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … the expense of deteriorating bank profits and excessive risk-taking. Both the quantitative effects and dynamic reactions …

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 …

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 …

implications of these exposures for bank risk. Larger, more capital market affine, and less capitalised banks hold more sovereign … that riskiness of government bond holdings affects bank risk only since 2010.This confirms the existence of a nexus between … government debt and bank risk …

sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First … impact of sovereign bond holdings on bank risk. This result could indicate the widespread absence of marking-to-market for …

Most bank efficiency studies that use stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) employ each bank’s own implicit input price …