Zusammenfassung Seit der Finanzmarktkrise wurden viele unterschiedliche Regulierungsmaßahmen umgesetzt, um die Stabilität der Banken in Krisensituationen durch die Stärkung ihrer Kapitalbasis zu erhöhen. Neben den Reformen der Eigenkapital- bzw. der Eigenmittelvorschriften zählen dazu auch...

In this paper, we seek empirical evidence for information rents in loan spreads by analyzing a sample of UK syndicated loan contracts for the period from 1996 to 2005. We use various measures for borrower opaqueness and control for bank, borrower and loan characteristics and we find that...

Operational risk incidences are likely to increase the degree of information asymmetry between firms and investors. We analyze operational risk disclosures by US financial firms during 1995–2009 and their impact on different measures of information asymmetry in the firms’ equity markets....

Prior research has addressed the question of whether certain events cause a transfer of wealth between stockholders and bondholders but does not control for the events’ impacts on firms’ credit risk. This may explain why many studies fail to identify wealth transfers. By employing...