Banks are optimally opaque institutions. They produce debt for use as a transaction medium (bank money), which requires … that information about the backing assets - loans - not be revealed, so that bank money does not fluctuate in value …-insensitive assets. For the economy as a whole, firms endogenously separate into bank finance and capital market/stock market finance …

behavior. By paying out dividends, a bank transfers value to its shareholders away from creditors, among whom are other banks …. This way, one bank's dividend payout policy affects the equity value and risk of default of other banks. When such negative … externalities are strong and bank franchise values are not too low, the private equilibrium can feature excess dividends relative to …

The regulation of bank capital as a means of smoothing the credit cycle is a central element of forthcoming macro …--on both questions, using a unique dataset. In the UK, regulators have imposed time-varying, bank-specific minimum capital …

present a model that explains the slow recovery of bank capital and economic activity. Banks provide intermediation in markets … selection. Adverse selection lowers bank profit margins which slows both the internal growth of equity and equity injections …

on solvent banks leading to bank panics. But financial crises of the last two decades have not fit the mold. A new …

1999, the markets were more sensitive to bank vulnerability and higher premiums were required …

exposure in bad times. We apply this idea to bank risk measurement. We find that banks with high accounting return on equity … triggered by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. ROE predicts systematic tail risk much better than conventional measures based …