correlated in the cross section, and (ii) the various components of bank value — the synergies among the bank’s assets and … of capital-starved acquirers to buy capital-rich targets, market timing, pecking order, the effect of banks with binding …

This paper empirically investigates banks' investment allocations over the recent business cycle. I identify … the pre-recession period, banks lend 38 percent of incremental deposits; however, during the downturn, banks favor liquid … assets and lending allocations fall to 22 percent. Banks with low risk tolerance or less access to liquidity are particularly …

The moral hazard incentives of the bank safety net predict that distressed banks take on more risk and higher leverage … include financial crises and are subject to different regulatory regimes (1985–1994, 2005–2014). We find that distressed banks …

lending. We find that the guidance primarily impacted large, closely supervised banks, but only after supervisors issued … more lax lending policies than banks, we unveil important evidence that nonbanks increased bank borrowing following the … issuance of guidance, possibly to finance their growing leveraged lending. The guidance was effective at reducing banks …

trillion in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, whereas banks' reserves at the Federal Reserve have decreased, the … diff-in-diff approach. By exploiting a temporary change in the computation of banks' Supplementary Leverage Ratio (SLR …) implemented in 2020-21, we show that banks' balance sheet costs incentivize them to push deposits toward MMFs and to reduce their …

network. We estimate that the impairment of any of the five most active U.S. banks will result in significant spillovers to … other banks, with 38 percent of the network affected on average. The impact varies and can be larger on particular days and … in geographies with concentrated banking markets. When banks respond to uncertainty by liquidity hoarding, the potential …

years; the Treasury earns dividends on the preferred shares and gets warrants on the bank’s common equity. We develop a … terms of the program. We also find that the net value varies widely across banks. We compare our estimates with abnormal … stock price returns for the stress test banks at the time the terms of the CAP announced; we find correlations between 0 …