, bank lenders may have an incentive to sell their worse flood risk to the two main agency securitizers, the Federal National … securitized mortgages. This paper uses the impact of one such sharp rule, the conforming loan limit, on securitization volumes. We … securitization activity in years following such a billion-dollar disaster. Such increase is larger in neighborhoods for which such a …

-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …-rated tranches holdings to assets increases with bank assets, but not for banks with more than $50 billion of assets. This evidence …

We study the corporate-loan pricing decisions of a major Greek bank during the Greek financial crisis. A unique aspect … of our dataset is that we observe both the interest rate and the "breakeven rate" of each loan, as computed by the bank …

. Finally, for Europe we assess the relative importance of cross-border bank spillovers as compared to domestic bank spillovers …

This paper examines the use of credit derivatives by US bank holding companies from 1999 to 2003 with assets in excess … of one billion dollars. Using the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Bank Holding Company Database, we find that in 2003 … represent on average two thirds of the assets of bank holding companies with assets in excess of $1 billion. Few banks are net …

monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …

We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company … (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank …