bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

In this paper, we analyze the impact of loan growth and business model on bank risk in 15 EU countries. In contrast to …, decreases with bank size possibly because large banks are more active in volatile trading and off-balance sheet activities such …

In attempting to promote bank stability, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2006) provides a framework that …

sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First … impact of sovereign bond holdings on bank risk. This result could indicate the widespread absence of marking-to-market for …

This paper studies the impact of bank regulation and taxation in a dynamic model where banks are exposed to credit and … an inverted U-shaped relationship between capital requirements and bank lending, efficiency, and welfare, with their …

, depositors, and regulators in connection with bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions, and … about causality and potential endogeneity which are usually inherent to research into the real economic implications of bank … more dependent on bank financing. Our findings are robust to various specifications. By investigating the transmission …

, depositors, and regulators in connection with bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions … potential endogeneity which are usually inherent to research into the real economic implications of bank regulation. We find a … dependent on bank financing. Our findings are robust to various specifications. Investigating the transmission channels of the …

sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First … impact of sovereign bond holdings on bank risk. This result could indicate the widespread absence of marking-to-market for …