The spectacular failure of the 150-year old investment bank Lehman Brothers on September 15th, 2008 was a major turning … limited to the largest financial firms; (ii) the most affected institutions were the surviving "non-bank" financial services …

the segmentation. Their model stresses the role of information in shaping bank competition, where a lender with an … with an increasing presence of competition. Motivated by these findings, we further use an original data set from the …, higher transparency of clients and stronger effects of competition on lending interest rates (lower spreads). Another segment …

paper introduces a measure of the threat that a bank poses to the system. Such a measure, called threat index, may be … individual institutions to the risk in the system. Although the threat index and the default level of a bank both reflect some …

alternative model to Basel framework is derived where systemic risk is taken into account in each bank's dynamic. This might be a … systemic risk. Moreover, bank regulation is considered in a two-scale level, either at the bank level or at the system … compute the capital ratio threshold per year for each bank and each country and we rank them according to their level of …