disciplining banks. Under our proposal, investors buy the subdebt of a bank only if they receive favourable information about the … bank, and the bank is subject to a regulatory examination if it fails to issue subdebt. By forcing banks to be examined …-destroying actions to benefit themselves, but may also encourage banks to lower asset risk. It shows that subdebt regulation and bank …

This paper provides cross-country evidence that variations in bank regulatory policies result in differences in income … securitization widens the distribution of income. We contend that these findings have new implications for the effects of bank …

, as well as an enhanced framework for bank regulation, supervision, and resolution that could mitigate the need to change …

This paper provides cross-country evidence that variations in bank regulatory policies result in differences in income … securitization widens the distribution of income. We contend that these findings have new implications for the effects of bank … regulations, besides those related to their impact on financial stability. Keywords: Bank regulations; Income inequality; Cross …

We investigate the effects of credit ratings-contingent financial regulation on foreign bank lending behavior. We … examine the sensitivity of international bank flows to debtor countries' sovereign credit rating changes before and after the …

We examine the effect of the full set of bank capital regulations (capital stringency) on loan growth, using bank …

This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data … on 37 countries from 1996–2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market during the financial …; and in countries that have lower bank-level disclosure. The results hold for both emerging and developed economy …

This study proposes an information asymmetry hypothesis to examine why bank credit ratings vary among countries even … when bank financial ratios remain constant. Countries are divided among those with low and high information asymmetry. The …

We examine the connection between the number of bank relationships and firms' performance using a unique data set on … on assets decrease as the number of bank relationships increases, the effects being stronger for small firms than for …. Particularly for small firms, these results are consistent with finding that suggest that having fewer bank relationships reduces …