, populations are shrinking and ageing at the same time. This paper explores the impact of demographic change on the banking …, allows us estimating the socio-demographic determinants of retail profitability. Using a simulation model, we are able to … predict the development of bank profitability due to demographic shifts up to 2025. One of the main findings is that the …

Banks play a critical role in international trade by providing trade finance products that reduce the risk of exporting …

the default risk of banks designated as globally systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. We find that … bank market values hardly respond to changes in the default risk of individual systemic banks. Together, however, changes … in systemic banks’ default risk explain a substantial part of changes in other banks’ market values. This result is …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … regulators in risky countries have an incentive to allow their banks to hold home risky bonds and risk defaults, while regulators … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …

these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and increase the costs of leverage. This paper evaluates the …