indicate that a 1 percentage point increase in a bank's equity-to-assets ratio lowers its cost of equity by about 18 basis …

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis …. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital …. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countries, we find that greater market power at the bank level and higher …

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 …