We analyze the extent to which private defensive litigation insurance deters patent assertion by non …-practicing entities (NPEs). We study the effect that a patent-specific defensive insurance product, offered by a leading litigation … defensive litigation insurance on the behavior of patent enforcers and accused infringers. We show that the availability of …

investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … reflected in current insurance regulation (incl. upcoming Solvency II in Europe). … risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional …

We show that negative monetary policy rates induce systemic banks to reach-for-yield. For identification, we exploit … the 26 largest euro area banking groups. Banks with more customer deposits are negatively affected by negative rates, as … higher returns. Effects are stronger for less capitalized banks, private sector (financial and non-financial) securities and …

We study how contingent capital affects banks' risk choices. When triggered in highly levered states, going …

banks in the time period between 1995 and 2013, before the Basel III liquidity regulation to address excessive maturity …. Using a dataset that contains information on critical events of German banks, we find that financing loans using fewer … customer deposits would have been associated with a higher probability of financial distress for savings banks and credit …

highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take …

We use a unique data set that comprises each bank’s bids in the Eurosystem’s main refinancing operations and its … recourse to the LOLR facility (a) to derive banks’ willingness-to-pay for liquidity through a one-week repo and (b) to show … that a bank’s willingness-to-pay is a good indicator for the probability that this bank draws on the LOLR facility. Our …