charged already higher interest rates to their borrowers after controlling for other bank specific characteristics and general …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank's credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

lending behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. CDS contracts may be used to hedge a bank's credit risk exposure … at a certain (potentially distorted) price. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk … credit risk. Under the substitution approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its …

that failed during the 2007/2008 crisis. Excess equity returns in response to bank bailouts are overall negative and …

large U.S. banks assign to syndicated loans for regulatory capital purposes. Using internal bank data on loans that had PDs … and LGDs assigned by more than one bank, we find substantial dispersion in these parameters. Banks differ substantially in … PDs, but only a few set PDs systematically higher or lower than the median bank. However, many banks differ from the …

, in the context of the eurozone periphery, the increase in domestic government bond holdings, the reduction of bank credit …

in bank capital requirements. Intuitively, higher capital requirements raise banks’ skin in the game and screening out …