The authors document leverage, capital and liquidity ratios of banks in Canada. These ratios are important indicators … of different types of risk with respect to a bank’s balance-sheet management. Particular attention is given to the … compare leverage and capital ratios for banks in Canada and the United States in the period leading up to the recent crisis …

supporting evidence for the bank risk-taking channel of monetary policy. We show that banks charge lower spreads when they lend … are low is robust to borrower-, loan-, and bank-specific factors as well as to macroeconomic factors known to affect loan … rates. The discount is also robust to bank-firm fixed effects. Finally, our tests that build on the micro information banks …

established. For example, the effect of a partial outage at a big six bank that has a net payment balance of $1 billion is …

evidence reveals that (i) the top three banks, RBC Financial Group, TD Bank Financial Group, and Scotiabank are more …

equilibrium model with banks and bank capital, in which bank capital solves an asymmetric information problem between banks and …This paper assesses the merits of countercyclical bank balance sheet regulation for the stabilization of financial and …, though banks do not internalize this impact. Regulation, in the form of a constraint on bank leverage, can mitigate the …