We use trades by US corporate insiders to investigate bank opacity, both in absolute terms and relative to other firms …. On average, bank insider sales do not earn an abnormal return and do not predict stock returns. By contrast, bank insider … assess bank opacity, the type of benchmark (transparency vs. other firms) and transaction/information (purchase/positive vs …

Loan syndication increases bank interconnectedness through co-lending relationships. We study the financial stability … on a common risk management tool such as value-at-risk (VaR). This is because a withdrawal of a bank from a syndicate can …

assets held by banks (eg derivatives); (ii) the degree to which a bank is capital constrained; and (iii) jurisdiction …

This study examines bank risk by investigating the equity and loan portfolio characteristics of publicly-traded bank …