This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … banking increases, the loan-to-asset ratio will rise (under reasonable assumptions), but the probability of bank failure can … either increase or decrease. However, the probability of bank failure will fall if and only if borrowers' response to take on …

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. …

choose their portfolio risk, bank size, and capital holdings. Banks voluntarily hold equity when the buffer effect against … larger, choose riskier portfolios, and have less equity. Binding capital requirements or levies on bank borrowing are shown …

Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …

, 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 …

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

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 …