Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending … on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis …

level of bank capital is. We use empirical evidence on UK banks to assess costs; we use data from shocks to incomes from a …

We analyze the problem of a policy authority (PA) that must decide when to resolve a troubled bank whose underlying … solvency is uncertain. Delaying resolution increases the chance that information arrives that reveals the bank's true solvency … efficient resolution decision following the arrival of information. Providing the bank with liquidity support buys the PA time …

observe provisioning practices before and after disclosure becomes mandatory. Our findings suggest that bank managers use loan … pressure and highlights the role of depositors and public pressure in the monitoring of bank managers. We exploit cross …

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 …