-out guarantee. The reason is that the prospect of a bail-out induces the protected bank to expand, thereby intensifying competition … in the deposit market and depressing other banks? margins. In contrast, the effects on the protected bank?s risk …

A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. … role in the transmission from competition to soundness. We use a two-pronged approach. First, we employ Granger causality …

reductions were initially driven by a government-sponsored price agreement, the increased competition fostered by multi …

This paper discusses the relationship between bank size and risk-taking under Pillar I of the New Basel Capital Accord …. Using a model with imperfect competition and moral hazard, we find that small banks (and hence small borrowers) may profit … pushes them towards higher risk-taking due to fiercer competition. This may even lead to higher aggregate risk in the economy. …

financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing … lower bank-average deposits per branch and roughly equal volumes of small business loans per branch, but no reduction in net …-sized branch networks had lower bank-average deposits and small business loan volume per branch, but had lower net deposit costs …

recent financial crisis. The crisis sparked a growing interest in understanding how and why we have created a world of large …

In diesem Papier geben wir einen Überblick über den Wettbewerb und die Effizienz im deutschen Bankensektor. Wir nehmen … scheinen Wettbewerb und Effizienz positiv miteinander verbunden. Des weiteren bestanden deutliche Unterschiede zwischen großen … möglichen Folgen für Wettbewerb und Effizienz. …

competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by … incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …