conditions, credit default and bank capitalization for the transmission of macroeconomic shocks. We fit the model to euro area … empirical literature, i.e. the pro-cyclicality of bank profitability and the counter-cyclical response of firm default rates and …

This paper models the strategic interaction between a rating agency, a bank and a bank regulator who lacks information … about bank asset risk. The regulator can either (1) make bank capital requirements contingent on credit ratings; or (2) set … constrain high risk bank investment without simultaneously reducing overall investment volume. However, if collusion between the …

untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign … of bank failure is partly borne by taxpayers in the banks' home countries. Moreover, each bank chooses the share of its … lending allocated between domestic and foreign firms, but the bank's overall loan volume is fixed by a capital requirement set …

coordinated ones when governments care equally about bank profits, taxpayers, and consumers …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank …