. For an international sample of banks, this paper investigates the impact of government indebtedness and deficits on bank … stock prices and credit default swap spreads. Overall, bank stock prices reflect a negative capitalization of government … reduction in their market valuation in countries running large fiscal deficits. Furthermore, the change in bank credit default …

For an international sample of banks, the authors construct measures of a bank's absolute size and its systemic size … defined as size relative to the national economy. They examine how a bank's risk and return, its activity mix and funding … save. The finding that a bank's interest cost tends to rise with its systemic size can also in part explain why a bank …

This paper examines how corporate governance and executive compensation affected bank capitalization strategies for an … to lower bank capitalization. Boards of intermediate size, separation of the chief executive officer and chairman roles …, and an absence of anti-takeover provisions, in particular, lead to low bank capitalization. However, executive options and …