Does enhanced shareholder liability reduce bank failure? We compare the performance of around 4,200 state … results suggest that exposing shareholders to more downside risk can successfully reduce bank failure …

bias in corporate taxation. It is well known that this reform reduces bank leverage. This paper analyzes a novel …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

, the equilibrium loan rate spread increases, which raises bank profitability and the market-to-book value of bank capital … model’s dynamic implications in a panel VAR estimation, which suggests that bank lending has even increased in the long …

Using evidence from Russia, we explore the effect of the introduction of deposit insurance on bank risk. Drawing on …

financial crisis of the 20th century – the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …

is to use a plurality of risk scores when assessing bank vulnerability. …

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 …