ability of a bank to restructure the borrower's firm in the case of distress, the possibility to appropriate private benefits …

We study the implications of the value at risk concept for the bank's optimum amount of equity capital under credit … managerial and market factors. Furthermore, the bank's equity and asset/liability management has to be addressed simultaneously … by bank managers. …

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 …

Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having … defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information … about a firm’s type to its competitors. Thereby, asymmetric information between banks is reduced and bank competition …

Efficiency is considered a key factor when evaluating a bank's performance. Moreover, efficiency enhancement is an … explicit policy objective in the Single Market Directive of the European Commission. But efficiency improvements may come at … the expense of deteriorating bank profits and excessive risk-taking. Both the quantitative effects and dynamic reactions …

the financial crisis 2008-09 was significantly higher for firms with a weak bank than for comparable firms with a sound … bank. Second, non-defaulting firms with a weak bank did not have a lower return on assets during the financial crisis 2008 …-09 than comparable firms with a sound bank. Taken together, these results may indicate the presence of heterogeneous effects …