Bank liquidity is a crucial determinant of the severity of banking crises. In this paper, we consider the effect of … welfare question as to when there is too much or too little liquidity on bank balance sheets relative to the socially optimal …

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 …

ex-post aspect, in which the failure of a bank brings down a surviving bank as well, and second, the ex-ante aspect, in … which banks endogenously hold correlated portfolios increasing the likelihood of joint failure. When bank loan returns have … a systematic factor, the failure of one bank conveys adverse information about this systematic factor and increases the …

For an international sample of banks, we construct measures of a bank’s absolute size and its systemic size defined as … size relative to the national economy. We then examine how a bank’s risk and return, its activity mix and funding strategy … that a bank’s interest cost tends to rise with its systemic size can also in part explain why a bank’s rate of return on …

As the number of bank failures increases, the set of assets available for acquisition by the surviving banks enlarges … for liquidation of banking assets. At a sufficiently large number of bank failures, and in turn, at a sufficiently low … and allowing the regulator to price-discriminate against outsiders in the market for bank sales. …

between cash and bank credit lines. Banks create liquidity for firms by pooling their idiosyncratic risks. As a result, firms … shorten. Also consistent with the mechanism in the model, we find that exposure to undrawn credit lines increases bank …

We address the following questions concerning bank capital: why are banks so highly levered, what are the consequences … of this leverage for the economy as a whole, and how can robust capital regulation be designed to restrict bank leverage … to levels that do not generate excessive systemic risk? Bank leverage choices are a delicate balancing act: credit …