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

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 …

to idiosyncratic factors. In particular, the bank-specific credit growth rates - usually thought of as a measure of …

The global financial crisis has highlighted the limitations of risk-sensitive bank capital ratios. To tackle this … steady state value of the regulatory minima for the two ratios strongly depends on the riskiness and the composition of bank …

market. When supported banks' investment strategy differed materially from that of the average bank it was in holding less …

first comprehensive empirical analysis of bank CoCo issues, a market segment that comprises over 730 instruments totaling …

Bank capital ratios have increased steadily since the financial crisis. For a sample of 94 large banks from advanced …