We use matched, bank-level panel data on Libor submissions and credit default swaps to decompose bank-funding spreads … and that this premium declined at short maturities following Federal Reserve interventions in bank funding markets. At …

-based component of bank CEO compensation contracts. We also examine the relationships between equity- based compensation and risk …, the equity- based component of bank CEO compensation increases significantly on average for the industry. Additionally, we … these relationships become more powerful in our post- deregulation period"--Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago web site …