internal rating based approach. The paper considers how a bank's preference for a risk management system is affected by the … presence of supervision by bank regulators. The model uses a principal-agent setting between a bank's owner and its risk … standard approach subsequent to becoming regulated, i.e., the presence of regulation may induce a bank to decrease the quality …

. A bank with higher capital has lesschance of breaching the ratio, so may actually take more risk. As a result, banks … stylized facts about pre-crisis bank behavior, and suggest implications for the optimal design of capital regulation. …

We analyse the poisonous interaction between bank rescues, financial fragility and sovereign debt discounts. In our … sovereign debt discount. We introduce long term government debt, which gives rise to the possibility of capital losses on bank … intermediaries causes bond prices to drop triggering capital losses at the bank under intervention. This mechanism shows the limits …

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 …