Die Ursachen der letzten globalen Bankenkrise werden vor allem in den aktuellen Rechnungslegungsvorschriften, der Rolle der Rating-Agenturen und der Schaffung von kaum nachvollziehbaren Wertpapierkonstruktionen gesehen. Diese Faktoren können zwar eine Krise beschleunigen, erklären aber noch...

Several countries have recently introduced national capital standards exceeding the internationally coordinated Basel III rules, which is inconsistent with the 'race to the bottom' in capital standards found in the literature. We study regulatory competition when banks are heterogeneous and give...

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...