banking crises. Recent findings show that government intervention results in only a small proportion of bank recoveries. This …

different combinations of bank asset and funding sources and assess their impact on the mortgage crisis. We then estimate how … distinct strategies have affected bank profitability and risk before the crisis, and what impact they have put on the mortgage …

This paper aims to answer the following question: what is (are) the cause(s) of the severe reduction in bank credits in … period an ultra–expansionary monetary policy has been implemented by the Bank of Japan. A theoretical lending–supply model is …

We analyse the implications for the pricing of bank loans of the reform of capital regulation known as Basel II. We …-sensitive standardized approach of Basel II. We also show that only an extremely high social cost of bank failure might justify the proposed …

the market for bank loans and how a central can compensate such shocks. The need for unconventional measures derives from … the size of these shocks and the zero lower bound of the central bank's policy rate. Under such conditions the central … bank can only stabilize the loan market by providing direct loans to the non-bank sector. A by-product of this approach is …

particular, we show that the stock market applies far greater discounts to a bank’s real estate loans and mortgage … suggests that bank balance sheets overvalue real estate related assets during economic slowdowns. Estimated discounts are … impairment. We also find that bank share prices, especially for banks with large exposures to mortgage-backed securities, react …

We model the interaction between two economies where banks exhibit both adverse selection and moral hazard and bank … regulators try to resolve these problems. We find that liberalizing bank capital flows between economies reduces total welfare by … considerations arise in this context. Allowing multinationals improves welfare when bank capital can flow across borders, despite the …

The merit of having international convergence of bank capital requirements in the presence of divergent closure … policies of different central banks is examined. While the privately optimal level of bank capital decreases with regulatory … forbearance (they are strategic substitutes), the socially optimal level of bank capital increases with regulatory forbearance …

This Paper shows that bank closure policies suffer from a ‘too-many-to-fail’ problem: when the number of bank failures … is large, the regulator finds it ex-post optimal to bail out some or all failed banks, whereas when the number of bank …-ante standpoint. We formalize this time-inconsistency of bank regulation. We also argue that by allowing banks to purchase failed …