This paper argues that a special bank bankruptcy regime is desirable for the efficient restructuring and/or liquidation … to better mitigate disruptions in the financial system and minimize the social costs of bank distress. We compare the U ….S., UK, and German bank bankruptcy frameworks and describe the EU framework for cross-border bank bankruptcy. We support our …

Traditional theory suggests that high franchise value limits bank risk-taking incentives. Then why did many banks with … paper attempts to reconcile theory and evidence. We consider a setup where a bank takes risk by levering up, to invest in … risky market-based instruments. High franchise value allows the bank to borrow more, so it can take risk on a larger scale …

by assessing the relation between bank size and market power. We use an extended version of the Panzar-Rosse (P-R) model … that allows bank size to affect market power. Based on a large sample of more than 18,000 banks in 101 countries comprising … more than 112,000 bank-year observations, we show that market power varies with bank size. Large banks have substantially …

Measuring bank performance solely on the basis of profitability conveys significant information about past performance …

This paper gives an overview of the recent literature on bank business models, structured along what we deem to be the … supervision towards the analysis of bank business models with a sound economic basis. The bottom-line for supervisors - in our … view - is that it is essential to understand where the profit comes from and what risks the bank or the banking sector is …