market is endogenously formed. Bank assets are hit by idiosyncratic shocks drawn from a thin tailed distribution. The uneven … to be heavily indebted to other banks, their liquidation can trigger other bank failures. We find that the distribution …

bank market values hardly respond to changes in the default risk of individual systemic banks. Together, however, changes …

their bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Late bids of this sort are much less frequent in auctions that … show that sniping in a fixed deadline auction can occur even at equilibrium in auctions with private values, as well as in … that apply the automatic extension rule. The strategic differences in the auction rules are reflected in the field data …

.S. policies, and bank-specific heterogeneity influences the magnitudes of transmission. The effects are supportive of the … international bank lending channel and the portfolio channel of monetary policy transmission. They also show that the frictions that …. The forms of bank balance sheet heterogeneity that differentiate spillovers across banks are not uniform across countries …

dictatorial regimes' rebuttal of World Bank calls to keep their export markets open in the face of the 2007 - 08 world food crisis. …