to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …

Previous studies of event returns surrounding bank mergers show that banks gain value in megamergers and additional …

efforts to supervise and guarantee bank solvency. African depositors face high costs for mitigating the loss exposures that …

offered by a very large bank. This unpriced credit enhancement helps to explain the preference revealed by very large U … banks have been more eager than small banks to offer mutual funds and why bank mutual funds could be priced to grow at a … time when bank deposits were being priced to shrink …

type of hidden capital and each class of bank, the model develops estimates of the stock-market, interest-rate, foreign …-exchange, and real estate sensitivities of returns to bank stockholders. Only the stock-market sensitivities prove significant at … five percent. This finding leads us to investigate what happens when we analyze Japanese bank stock returns by means of …