Today’s regulatory rules, especially the easily-manipulated measures of regulatory capital, have led to costly bank … failures. We design a robust regulatory system such that (i) bank losses are credibly borne by the private sector (ii …) systemically important institutions cannot collapse suddenly; (iii) bank investment is counter-cyclical; and (iv) regulatory …

after controlling for bank-specific and market risk factors. Large banks on average pay 80 basis points and 70 basis points …

We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage … emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset … and fragility. Deposit insurance and the expectation of government bailouts increase not only bank risk taking, but also …

bank's financing structure. In our model the bank's assets consist of illiquid loans and liquid reserves and are financed … to an exogenous rollover risk. We show that the use of repos inflicts two types of indirect (“shadow”) costs on the bank …'s shareholders: first, it induces the bank to maintain higher liquid reserves in order to alleviate the additional default risk …

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …

The aim of this study is to examine the effects of bank-specific, regulatory and macroeconomic determinants on bank …

). This is attributed to the severe political intervention and weak incentives to follow prudent bank management practices for …

Today's regulatory rules, especially the easily-manipulated measures of regulatory capital, have led to costly bank … failures. We design a robust regulatory system such that (i) bank losses are credibly borne by the private sector (ii …) systemically important institutions cannot collapse suddenly; (iii) bank investment is counter-cyclical; and (iv) regulatory …

We develop a novel dynamic model of banking showing that aggregate bank capital is an important determinant of bank …. Because of this financial friction, banks build equity buffers to absorb negative shocks. Aggregate bank capital determines …