Using a new, comprehensive database on bank ownership, identifying also the home country of foreign banks, for 137 … countries over the period 1995-2009, this paper provides an overview of foreign bank activity and its impact of financial … development and stability. We document substantial increases in foreign bank presence, especially in emerging markets and …

. Negative media reports, falling stock prices, and opaque product information also affect trust in banks. Experiencing a bank … bailout leads to less concern about government intervention, while experience of a bank failure leads to greater concern on …

indicates that the reduction in bank lending during the crisis was at least partly caused by stricter bank screening and …

This paper models a financial sector in which there is a feedback between individual bank risk and aggregate funding … premia on that market push up bank risk taking, leading to multiple equilibria. The model identifies shifts among equilibria … as a function of parameter shocks. Measures that reduce individual bank default risk within an equilibrium can actually …

have significant effects on loan rates and credit supply, particularly of banks in stressed countries. Central bank … lending to households. Moreover, bank characteristics matter for monetary transmission: loan growth of large banks that are …

We examine whether Fitch support ratings of US banks depend on bank size. Using quarterly data for the period 2004:Q4 … to 2012:Q4 and controlling for several factors that make large and small banks different, we find that bank size is …

In this study we disentangle two dimensions of banks' systemic risk: the level of bank tail risk and the linkage … between a bank's tail risk and severe shocks in the financial system. We employ a measure of the systemic risk of financial … bank characteristics are related to bank tail risk and systemic linkage. The interrelationship between bank characteristics …

This paper examines how credit risk affects bank lending and the business cycle. We estimate a panel Vector …, inflation, the short-term interest rate, bank lending, as well as loan loss provisioning by banks (as proxy for credit risk …). Our main findings are that: (i) bank lending and loan loss provisioning are important drivers of business cycle …