This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … in other “safe” countries will impose tighter regulation. As a result, governments in risky countries get to borrow more …

rating agency and the bank corrupts rating quality, rating-independent regulation enhances welfare. The welfare benefits are …This paper models the strategic interaction between a rating agency, a bank and a bank regulator who lacks information … about bank asset risk. The regulator can either (1) make bank capital requirements contingent on credit ratings; or (2) set …

implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …

-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment …. Yet, previous empirical work has generally found that the introduction of incentive regulation has not systematically …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

bank market values hardly respond to changes in the default risk of individual systemic banks. Together, however, changes …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce … these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and increase the costs of leverage. This paper evaluates the …

This paper analyzes the effect of the removal of government guarantees on bank risk taking. We exploit the removal of …