of deposit insurance as a function of capital-asset ratio for a bank with demand liabilities and longer term, default …

We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage … emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset … underlie our structural model, we can quantify the impact capital regulation and other government interventions have on bank …

When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, one way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If … asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in … explains how the distribution of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank …

accounting for loan portfolios held to maturity. Marked-to-market bank assets have declined by an average of 10% across all the …-- unlike insured depositors, uninsured depositors stand to lose a part of their deposits if the bank fails, potentially giving … them incentives to run. A case study of the recently failed Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) is illustrative. 10 percent of banks …

Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank …

allows us to show how bank-level risk management considerations should factor into the pricing of those risks that cannot be …

issuance of common stock was negative due to repurchases. We assume that, in the absence of capital requirements, a bank has an … optimal capital structure that depends on its business model. Capital requirements can impose constraints on bank decisions …. If a bank's optimal capital structure also meets regulatory capital requirements with a sufficient buffer, the bank is …