competitive environment affect bank monitoring choices and the effectiveness of capital regulation? Our approach deviates from the …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but put limitations on the mode of entry. We study how …

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study …

Does an increase in competition increase or decrease bank stability? I exploit how the state-specific process of … significantly increases bank stability. This result is robust to the inclusion of additional fixed effects and other influences … loans and increases bank profitability. These findings suggest that competition increases stability as it improves bank …

CRE loan shares at local banks. CRE concentrations were a principal cause of post-crisis bank failures, and this paper … presents evidence showing how competition increases not just individual bank fragility, but the stability of the banking sector …

deregulation of bank entry on bank stability.In theory, the effect of the deregulation of bank entry on bank stability is ambiguous …. On the one hand, theoretical models provide opposing predictions about the effect of bank competition on the stability of … banks. On the other hand, deregulation of bank entry may result simultaneously in greater competition in the local banking …

Does deregulation of bank entry enhance bank stability or exacerbate bank fragility? Since the theoretically predicted … effect of deregulation of bank entry on bank failures is ambiguous, this question has to be answered empirically. In this … paper, we analyze the impact of deregulation of entry restrictions in the U.S. states on bank stability. We find that …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …