The primary purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between bank capital and credit risk taking in … and legal environment in driving bank capitalization and credit risk taking behavior in emerging market economies. …

fixed income unless the value of the bank’s assets falls below a predetermined threshold. In such an event, the debt … obligation is automatically converted to the bank’s common equities. By using a contingent claims valuation approach we present … bank that includes DES or alternatively subordinated debt in its capital structure. We compare and evaluate quantitatively …

-2000, with detailed information on bank ownership. Our analysis shows that during crisis periods domestic banks contracted their … credit and deposit bases, whereas foreign banks did not. Also, home country conditions matter for foreign bank growth, as …

We examine wealth effects, for banks and insurers, of bank rights to sell and underwrite annuities. The stock …-price reactions to four court and regulatory decisions are consistent with expectations of bank gains at insurers' expense. Cross …, riskier bank holding companies with fee- based and consumer business gain most, consistent with the extension of federal …

This paper provides new evidence on the effects of bank capital requirements in Indonesia. In investigating the impact … of bank capital requirements, we set up a simple model of the banking firm which can detect the impact of capital … econometric tests, we choose the Fixed Effects panel regression model because the bank specific characteristics are found to be …

found for hypothesized transmission mechanisms through improved financing for SMEs or greater overall bank credit flows. The …