highlight weak macro-economic conditions, lax bank supervision and individual bank weakness as the key factors …

framework were more likely to require public support during the crisis. We instrument some characteristics of bank balance … sheets with these prudential indicators to investigate how they affect bank resilience. The share of non-interest income …

. Political indicators reveal bailout expectations after 2009, manifested as beliefs about the predicted probability of receiving … was lower, and loan rates were higher for banks with higher bailout expectations. The interest margins of unsupported …

contagion which can be used to calibrate bank-specific capital and liquidity requirements and large exposures limits. We find … non-linear function of the combination of network structures and bank-specific characteristics …

frictions in which bank assets are a portfolio of defaultable loans. We show that ex-ante imperfect diversification of bank … lending generates bank asset returns with limited upside but significant downside risk. The asymmetric distribution of these … returns and their implications for the evolution of bank net worth are important for capturing the frequency and severity of …

This paper examines common regulation as cause of interbank contagion. Studies based on the correlation of bank assets … that banks have a common regulator. In our model, the failure of one bank can undermine the public's confidence in the … forbearance to the initially failing bank in the hope that it - and hence other vulnerable banks - survives. By contrast, public …