This paper analyzes the determinants of spreads on syndicated bank lending to emerging markets, treating the loan … interpretation of bank finance as dominating that segment of international financial markets characterized by the most pronounced …

This paper explores the extent to which interest risk exposure is priced in bank margins. Our contribution to the … for earnings from bank-individual maturity transformation strategies, we find all banks to charge additional fees for …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank's credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

This paper investigates how monetary policy affects bank profitability. We use data for 109 large international banks … short-term rates and the slope of the yield curve (the "interest rate structure", for short), on the one hand, and bank … that, over time, unusually low interest rates and an unusually flat term structure erode bank profitability …

types of long-term debt securities. By investigating at the individual bank level, we are able to test explicitly a broad … country and bank-specific financial characteristics as explanatory variables. With respect to the country determinants, our … bond issuance, while for banks from the euro area periphery central bank liquidity substituted for unsecured long-term debt …

This paper reviews the market reaction to bank rescue packages announced in six countries between October 2008 and … shareholders as seen in the movement of bank stock prices. Government interventions benefited creditors at the expense of … shareholders, with bank CDS spreads narrowing around the announcements in all cases. Despite a brief positive reaction, bank stock …