) leading to efficiency gains in the banking market. Our findings suggest that the more frequent bank failures occurring in a …We exploit the introduction of free banking laws in US states during the 1837-1863 period to examine the impact of … find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …

We investigate the information content of stock correlation based network measures for systemic risk rankings, such as … SIFIRank (based on Google's PageRank). Using European banking data, we first show that SIFIRank is empirically equivalent to a … complement currently available systemic risk ranking methods based on book or market values. A further analytical investigation …

yielding but zero risk-weight sovereign bonds. The increase in banking system risk might therefore be even larger than the … decline in risk-weighted solvency ratios suggests. Distress in the banking system also feeds back onto bond prices. Bonds …This paper uses granular bond portfolio data to study how banking systems across the European Union (EU) adjust their …

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

differences in risk premia. We deduct testable hypotheses on the basis of which we empirically analyze the impact of uncertainty …

We study the dependence between the downside risk of European banks and insurers. Since the downside risk of banks and … insurers differs, an interesting question from a supervisory point of view is the risk reduction that derives from … of the risk distribution. This measure is estimated and indicates better diversification benefits for conglomerates …

We assess the influence of competition and capital regulation on the stability of the banking system. We particularly … requirements can lead to more entry into banking, essentially by reducing the competitive strength of lower quality banks. We also ….g. one country that opens up its banking system for competitors but not vice versa. …

I analyze welfare properties of mutual funds in the Diamond-Dybvig model with two sources of aggregate risk …: undiversifiable interest rate risk and shocks to aggregate liquidity demand. Mutual funds are inefficient when the economy faces … undiversifiable interest rate risk. However, if only aggregate liquidity demand is stochastic, mutual funds can implement the social …