Microeconometrics of Banking Methods, Applications, and Results

Hans Degryse is professor of financial intermediation and markets at CentER - Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a CESIfo research fellow. He holds the TILEC-AFM Chair on Financial Market Regulation. His research interests include empirical and theoretical banking, market microstructure, and financial systems. Moshe Kim is professor of economics, University of Haifa, Israel and currently at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona Spain. He is founder and co-director of the Barcelona Banking Summer School (BBSS) at the Barcelona Graduate School. His research interests include firm-bank relationships, imperfect banking competition, and financial systems. Steven Ongena is professor in empirical banking at CentER - Tilburg University in the Netherlands and a CEPR research fellow in financial economics. He is a member of TILEC, a NAKE and CFS fellow, a steering committee member of the ECB-CFS Research Network, and an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Services Research. His research interests include firm-bank relationships, bank mergers and acquisitions, and financial systems.

INTRODUCTION ; WHY DO FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES EXIST? ; THE INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION APPROACH TO BANKING ; THE LENDER-BORROWER RELATIONSHIP ; EQUILIBRIUM AND RATIONING IN THE CREDIT MARKET ; THE MACROECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF FINANCIAL IMPERFECTIONS ; INDIVIDUAL BANK RUNS AND SYSTEMIC RISK ; MANAGING RISKS IN THE BANKING FIRM ; THE REGULATION OF BANKS ; CONCLUSION ; EPILOGUE: THE BANKING CRISIS OF 2007-2008