feedback effects to the real economy generated by bank failures. On a cross-section of countries, we find evidence that … suggests that bank supervisors' intervention in bank failures may be positively associated with some aspects of the …

have been reluctant to do so. Provided the market expects a bank to rebuild its buffers, any draw-down will open up a … capital shortfall that will weigh on its share price. Therefore, a bank will only decide to use its buffers if the value …

The paper focuses on the impact of diversification on bank performance and how consolidation through mergers and … indigenous banks, as compared to foreign competitors in the ECCU. We then simulate bank mergers both within and across ECCU … countries by combining individual banks' balance sheets. The simulation shows that a typical indigenous bank could better …

orientation, pressures on funding models and entity structures could affect the efficiency of capital flows through the bank …