The difficult situation of the German banking sector at least according to the basic tenor of many contributions is raised to the threatening ranks of the "disease" the Japanese banking industry is suffering from. Such a statement labelling "German banks Turning Japanese" is the very issue of a...

This contribution presents and discusses main results of a new survey on the assessment of supervisory quality among German banks in 2010. In particular, it is analyzed if and how supervised banks' perception of the quality of supervisory authorities and their instruments has changed due to the...

This study reviews the existing literature on the determinants of bank-level deposit volatility and is the first to provide empirical evidence for the German banking system by analyzing a large set of confidential micro-data from 2,262 banks over the period from 2003 to 2015. Taking advantage of...

The globe is still far away from a consistent implementation of a fully-fledged harmonized banking regulatory framework. The reason for this heterogeneity mainly results from (a) historically grown and hence different country-specific traditions in banking regulation and supervision, (b)...

In recent history, financial markets worldwide experienced severe turmoil due to the subprime crisis originating from the practice of US mortgage banks to securitise loans given especially to subprime borrowers. In the same crisis, several distressed banks were bailed out by states with even...