efficiency concerns implied by Shari'ah constraints. Greater risk sharing among cooperative bank stakeholders, using mechanisms …

We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long …-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk from concentrated positions. When a bank … inefficiencies. A bank may allocate too much capital to trading ex-post, compromising the incentives to build relationships ex …

policymakers’ efforts to strengthen bank capitalization …

supply factors, both for the whole 1993-2010 period and during periods of financial instability. Using bank-level panel data …

The global financial crisis has placed the spotlight squarely on bank stress tests. Stress tests conducted in the lead …

comparator block in the Eastern Caribbean. Using bank-level data, we find that countries with a high level of operating costs, a … operating costs are associated with low measures of institutional quality and a small size of bank operations. We find support …

the probability of financial crisis. It finds that greater tax bias is associated with significantly higher aggregate bank …

precautionary liquidity buffers is associated with measures of bank size, profitability, capitalization, and financial development …

The crisis in Europe has underscored the vulnerability of European bank funding models compared to international peers …. This paper studies the drivers behind this fragility and examines the future of bank funding, primarily wholesale, in … possible policy options and bank actions to enhance European bank funding models' robustness …