intermediation. In one structure, called Bank, the intermediary is financed by issuing debt contracts to investors, and thus …

rate of growth of capital asset or income whether source of borrowing is bank or money lender. This is then formalized in a …

Why do banks remain passive? In a model of bank-firm relationship we study the trade-off a bank faces when having … defaulting firms declared bankrupt. First, the bank receives a payoff if a firm is liquidated. Second, it provides information … about a firm's type to its competitors. Thereby, asymmetric information between banks is reduced and bank competition …

We model EU countries' bank ratings using financial variables and allowing for intercept and slope heterogeneity. Our …

-based measures of systemic bank shocks (SBS). These measures differ from 'banking crisis' (BC) indicators employed in many empirical … studies, which are constructed using primarily information on government actions undertaken in response to bank distress … that BC indicators actually measure lagged policy responses to systemic bank shocks. We then re-examine the impact of …

motivators that derive their value from such social concerns. Panel data from the call center of a large international bank allow …

We analyze the microeconomic determinants of cross-border bank acquisitions in 16 transition economies over the period …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …