The table shows the results for non-default banks from 1998:Q1until 2008:Q4 for the total sample as well as subdivided into small,medium and large banks. This classification uses the 25th and the75th percentile of total assets of this sample as the threshold ineach year.12 Table 4 also shows the descriptive statistics for defaultbanks from 2006:Q1 until 2010:Q3 and for non-default banks overthe same period for comparison. The results for non-default banksfrom 1998:Q1 until 2008:Q4 show an average LR of about 7.3%and an average CR of about 11.1%. This implies ceteris paribus highliquidity risk but low credit risk. The LR values increase by bank sizemeaning that larger banks tend to have a more fragile balance sheetstructure in terms of liquidity risk. The CR values are comparableacross all size subsamples. Non-default banks in our dataset havean average asset size of 1.09 billion US Dollar whereas the distribution among banks is strongly skewed. Non-default banks inthe period 1998:Q1 to 2008:Q4 have a return on assets of 0.724%,a standard deviation of the return on assets of 0.400%, a rather smallportion of trading assets (0.04%), slightly fewer private than commercialloans, and about 10% of their total loan portfolio is investedin agricultural and over 60% in real estate loans. The return on assets,the proportion of trading assets to total assets, and the ratio of realestate and also commercial loans to total loans increase by bank size.By contrast, smaller banks grant a larger proportion of agriculturaland private loans as a percentage of their total loan portfolio andare also slightly less efficient. We also observe that small- and medium-sized banks do not perform any notable off-balance sheet activities.Comparing non-default banks in 1998:Q1 to 2008:Q4 to theperiod 2006:Q1 to 2010:Q3 we observe that LR substantially decreasedindicating less liquidity risk in the later period. This is to alarge extent driven by the substantial increase of trading assetswhich are included in our LR measure. As trading assets are very liquidand can be disposed of quickly and at low cost, the strong increasein securities holdings results in a lower LR. In contrast, ourCR measure indicates an increase of credit risk over time from11.1% to 16.6%.