bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche … Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available … and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank distress. Second, we control for a wide array of different time …

The general view underlying bank regulation is that bank disclosures providemarket discipline and reduce banks’ risk …-taking incentives. We show that bankdisclosures can increase bank leverage and bank risk. The reason stems from theinteraction between … insured and uninsured debt. Bank disclosures reduce the agencyproblem between uninsured debt and equity, thereby lowering the …

risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …

In this paper we relate a bank’s choice between retail and wholesale liabilities to real economic uncertainty and the … resulting volatility of bank loan volumes. We argue that since the volume of retail deposits is slow and costly to adjust to … shocks in the volume of bank assets, banks facing more intense uncertainty and more volatile loan demand tend to employ more …

We develop a model of bank risk-taking with strategic sovereign default risk. Domestic banks invest in real projects … their default risks through purchases of bonds. But, for high debt levels, this influence is lost since bank and government …

unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of … regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank … profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure …