Cyclicality in the losses of bank loans is important for bank risk management. Because loans have a different risk … default rate and loss given default of bank loans share a cyclical component, related to the business cycle. We infer this …

A banking union limits international bank default contagion, eliminating inefficient liquidations. For particularly low …

Diamond-Dybvig model cast in a global games framework, we show that while the CoCo conversion of the issuing bank may bring … the bank back into compliance with capital requirements, it will nevertheless raise the probability of the bank being run … on other banks in the system in the likely case of correlated asset returns, so bank runs elsewhere in the banking system …