factors they perceive as drivers and obstacles to financing SMEs. We also study to what degree competition and the … banks in both countries. In particular, banks have begun to target SMEs due to the significant competition in the corporate …

local credit markets. We provide evidence that marginal increases in interbank competition are detrimental to relationship … technologies are al-ready widely in use in the market by a large group of small mutual banks, an increase in competition may drive …

-over effects. Building on a simple model, this paper introduces a measure of the spill-over effects that a bank generates when it … defaults. The measure is based on an explicit criterion, the aggregate debt repayments, and is bank’s specific, affected by the … bank’s characteristics and links to other banks. Such measure can be useful to a regulator to determine in which banks cash …

bank market values hardly respond to changes in the default risk of individual systemic banks. Together, however, changes …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce … these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and increase the costs of leverage. This paper evaluates the …

This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …