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 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 …

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 …

We show that the impact of government bailouts (liquidity injections) on a representative bank's risk taking depends on … the level of systematic risk of its loans portfolio. In a model where bank's output follows a geometric Brownian motion … and the government guarantees bank's liabilities, we show first that more generous bailouts may or may not induce banks to …

developed considering this new paradigm and discuss how institutional features relating to bank closure policy influences lender …