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 …

bank segregations are effective in cleaning up balance sheets and promoting bank lending only if they combine … purchases are funded privately; (ii) smaller shares of the originating bank's assets are segregated; and (iii) asset segregation … problem associated with the creation of a bad bank …

-dependent bank capital regulation (CR). Bank leverage choices are subject to the risk-return trade-off: high leverage increases … expected return on capital, but also increases return variance and bank failure risk. Financial frictions imply that bank … leverage choices are socially inefficient, providing scope for a welfare-enhancing CR that imposes a cap on bank leverage. The …

. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies …. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional approaches to measure competition concluded that bank competition in … specifications and estimation methods. All in all, our analysis suggests that bank lending markets in China have been more …

next three months. A comprehensive bank-level database reveals the public responded to signals sent by regulators' actions …

Bank payout policy is strongly affected by regulation and politics, especially for the largest banks. Banks, but not … the Global Financial Crisis, bank regulators' influence on payout policies of the largest banks increases sharply and …

A number of countries' authorities put in place bank rescue packages using public funds in response to the global …

. Specifically, it takes stock of the salient new features of bank and CCP international standards within a unified analytical …