financial crisis. Were these public recapitalisations followed by a reduction of risk in banks' loan books? To answer this … question, in this paper the balance sheets and syndicated loan portfolios of 87 large internationally active banks …, approximately half of which were rescued during the crisis, are analysed for the period 2000-10. Evidence is presented that banks …

Banks that enjoyed generous external financial support tended to under-price risk in the international syndicated loan … market and did not show signs of innovation in their loan participations. Loans arranged by such banks had on average lower … spreads (controlling for risk and other characteristics) and these banks retained loans that were on average priced below …

the bank.s lending cycle that results in an easing of credit standards. This easing of standards may be compounded by … individual US banks over the period 1980-2000. We employ over 200,000 observations on commercial loan growth measured at the bank …

Bank capital ratios have increased steadily since the financial crisis. For a sample of 94 large banks from advanced … reductions in risk weights playing a lesser role. On average, banks continued to expand their lending, though lending growth was … relatively slower among European banks. Lower dividend payouts and (for advanced economy banks) wider lending spreads have …

regards the role of law. It then discusses the application of competition policy to banks before and during the crisis, and …

We study empirically the effect of focus (specialization) vs. diversification on the return and the risk of banks using … data from 105 Italian banks over the period 1993-1999. Specifically, we analyze the tradeoffs between (loan portfolio … bank return while endogenously producing riskier loans for all banks in our sample (this effect being most powerful for …

includes quarterly balance sheet information for listed banks operating in the European Union and the United States in the last … banks' risk. This result holds for a wide range of measures of risk, as well as macroeconomic and institutional controls. …

We propose that individual banks' reported loan losses and provisions for future loan losses are lower, all else equal … underreporting charge-offs and provisions provides banks with incentives, when the banking industry is weaker, to cluster more, or to … seek "safety in similarity." We provide evidence that large, individual U.S. banks indeed tend to report both lower charge …