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

We use data on 1,294 banks in Central and Eastern Europe to analyze how bank ownership and creditor coordination in the …

This paper develops a model to assess how monetary policy rates affect bank risk-taking. In the model, a reduction in … bank extracts from borrowers. Under limited liability, this increased profitability affects only upside returns, inducing … the bank to take excessive leverage and hence risk. Excessive risk-taking increases as the interest rate decreases. At a …

We analyze how bank profitability impacts financial stability from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. We … first develop a theoretical model of the relationship between bank profitability and financial stability by exploring the … empirical determinants of bank risks and profitability, and how the level and the source of bank profitability affect risks for …

associated with a specific bank. Our approach defines the banking system as a portfolio of banks and infers the system …

We measure bank vulnerability in emerging markets using the distance-to-default, a risk-neutral indicator based on … 38 banks in 14 emerging market countries. Results show it can predict a bank''s credit deterioration up to nine months in … advance. The distance-to-default, hence, may prove useful for bank monitoring purposes …