risk. This paper focuses on the transmission of sovereign risk to insurance companies as some of the largest institutional … investors in the sovereign bond market. We use a firm level panel dataset that covers large insurance companies, banks and non … effects from sovereign risk to domestic insurers. The impact on insurers is larger than for non-financial firms and slightly …

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 …

transforms existing financial claims against ultimate borrowers that have been originated by traditional banks. Based on … non-financial private sector had been originated by shadow banks. Consequently, dampening credit creation by the … traditional banking sector might be an additional policy instrument to reduce the build-up of systemic risk in the shadow banking …

Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …

on financial stability and the real economy. We investigate the cyclicality of SME lending by local banks with vs … maximization and a sustainable provision of financial services to local customers. We find that banks with a public mandate are 25 … percent less cyclical than other local banks. The result is credit supply-side driven and especially strong for savings banks …

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 …

After the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a rapid and far-reaching shrinkage of international banks’ assets with a focus … risk taking, both high average income and a strong balance sheet expansion in the pre-crisis period are found to be …

We study how contingent capital affects banks' risk choices. When triggered in highly levered states, going …-concern conversion reduces risk-taking incentives, unlike conversion at default by traditional bail-inable debt. Interestingly …, contingent capital (CoCo) may be less risky than bail-inable debt as its lower priority is compensated by a lower induced risk …

one banking relationship as long as they account for only a small share of the total loan volume of their banks. The …