Abstract: This paper documents large cross-country variation in the relationship between bank competition and bank …

This paper provides the first empirical evidence on how home-country regulation and supervision affects bank risk … independently from the effect that bank balance sheet have on lending. These findings imply that loose home-country regulation and …

inefficiencies, as the various distortions can offset each other. Empirical analysis using bank-level data from the recent crisis …

Banking regulation has proven to be inadequate to guard systemic stability in the recent financial crisis. Central …. Using a model of a systemic bank suffering from liquidity shocks, we find that the unregulated bank keeps too much liquidity … induces moral hazard. Therefore, we introduce a fiscal authority that is able to bail out the bank by injecting capital. This …

create dependency between bank leverage and risk. Using a large international sample of banks this paper estimates the short … and long run effects of corporate income taxes (CIT) on bank capital structure and portfolio risk accounting for their ….8-1.4 percentage points in bank leverage and a 2-7-percentage point reduction in the average risk-weight of assets. While the estimated …

than under national resolution. Results from a numerical simulation exercise and empirical analysis using bank-level data …

. For an international sample of banks, this paper investigates the impact of government indebtedness and deficits on bank … stock prices and CDS spreads. Overall, bank stock prices reflect a negative capitalization of government debt and they … valuation in countries running large fiscal deficits. Furthermore, the change in bank CDS spreads in 2008 relative to 2007 …

This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and return using …, however, attract most of their short-term funding in the form of non-deposits at a cost of enhanced bank fragility. Overall …