domestic and foreign bank creditors. Second, banks do not hedge their exchange rate risk. Third, there is a lending boom before …

behavior following monetary policy shocks. In a first step, we show that the sensitivity of bank profits to interest rates … income gap also predicts the sensitivity of bank lending to interest rates, both for commercial & industrial loans and for … mortgages. Quantitatively, a 100 basis point increase in the Fed funds rate leads a bank at the 75th percentile of the income …

) focus and diversification using a unique data set that is able to identify individual bank loan exposures to different … deterioration in bank monitoring quality at high levels of risk and a deterioration in bank monitoring quality upon lending … expansion into newer or competitive industries. We find that industrial loan diversification reduces bank return while …

We use payroll data on 1.2 million bank employee years in the Austrian, German, and Swiss banking sector to identify … document an economically significant correlation of incentive pay with both the level and volatility of bank trading income … bonus share in the capital markets divisions with the strength of incentive pay in unrelated bank divisions like retail …

bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity and monitors too little. A … central bank can alleviate the liquidity problem, but induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce an additional authority … that is able to bail out the bank either by injecting capital at a fixed return or by receiving an equity claim. This …

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 …

. Using a model of a systemic bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity … induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce a fiscal authority that is able to bail out the bank by injecting capital. This …

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 …