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. …

This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of … the level of local bank concentration and bank capitalization. I find that banks operating in high-concentration markets … in local deposit and loan markets, along with bank capital requirements, lead to frictions on the pass-through to the …

Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the …

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 …

', if fiscal consolidation is combined with a program for bank recovery and for competitiveness and growth. The second …

The possibility of creating a state bank has received much recent attention in the United States. In 2021, six states … introduced legislation to create a state bank; in 2019, similar legislation was enacted in California for municipal banks. This … to traditional private banking and identifies five questions determining the advisability of creating a state bank. The …

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 …