We estimate expected bail-in costs for an international sample of banks by comparing spreads of credit default swaps (CDS) that only differ in terms of whether they insure against the bailing in of a distressed banks’ creditors. Using these estimated bail-in costs we study bank risk taking...

This paper examines the impact of international differences in capital regulation on multinational banks’ loan origination location decisions. International loan location decisions represent a key banking margin that has previously not been examined in the literature on regulatory arbitrage by...

Using an event study methodology, this paper examines how European firms have been affected by the announcement of the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Program (PEPP) of the ECB. Firms with an investment-grade rating benefit relatively more as evidenced by higher share prices and lower CDS spreads,...