to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …

explain about two-thirds of the variation of bank capitalization over the business cycle. We estimate that provisioning …

We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company … (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank …

evolution of bank credit. We use a unique loanlevel dataset comprising multiple credit registers from several European countries … with borrower and bank-level characteristics and with indicators summarising macroprudential and monetary policy actions …. We find that monetary policy easing increases both bank lending and lending to riskier borrowers, especially when there …

This paper examines the impact of bank regulations, market structure, and national institutions on bank net interest … margins and overhead costs using data on over 1,400 banks across 72 countries while controlling for bank …-specific characteristics. The data indicate that tighter regulations on bank entry and bank activities boost the cost of financial …