How do near-zero interest rates affect bank competition, risk taking and regulation? I study these questions in a … insurance may induce excessive risk taking. The zero lower bound on deposit rates (ZLB) distorts bank competition and boosts …

take excessive risks: As competition intensifies and margins decline, banks face more-binding threats of failure, to which …, destabilizing effect of lower margins outweighs the disciplining effect of competition; moreover, a substantial rise in competition … reduces banks’ incentive to build precautionary capital buffers. A key implication is that the effects of competition on risk …

removing barriers to bank entry on bank competition and economic growth. As governments were not concerned about systemic … stability in this period, we are able to isolate the effects of bank competition from those of state implicit guarantees. We … states that retained state bank chartering policies. We argue that the fiercer bank competition following the introduction of …