banks was the fatal link between the collapse of structured finance and the global malfunction of funding markets that …

Banks may be unable to refinance short-term liabilities in case of solvency concerns. To manage this risk, banks can … buffers can be imposed, transparency is not verifiable. Moreover, liquidity requirements can compromise banks' transparency …

bank credit. We find that banks with strong balance sheets were better able to maintain lending during the crisis. In … credit more than other banks. However, higher and better-quality capital mitigated this effect. Our results suggest that …. Using data from the syndicated loan market, we exploit variation in banks’ reliance on wholesale funding and their …

] Interconnectedness among financial institutions (banks) can play a major role in precipitating systemic financial crises. [2] Lack of … partly responsible for the length and severity of these recessions. In the model, banks make decisions about initiating and … them to make inefficient decisions about liquidation, and about retention of the managers who assess credit risk. These …