. In a financial crisis bank health is significantly damaged. Post-crisis regulatory changes have aimed at restoring bank … health, but measuring bank health by Tobin's Q, we find that the ill health of banks in the recent U.S. financial crisis and … by the state of the macro-economy. The results seem to suggest that bank regulatory changes may be repressive …

competition reduces bank opacity, enhancing the ability of markets and regulators to monitor banks …

banks suggests that neither bank size nor government ownership fully explains adoption patterns. Organizational culture …

established through bank-to-bank lending and provide evidence to support this claim. To analyze dynamics of formation of such …

-rated tranches were economically trivial for the typical bank, but banks with greater holdings performed more poorly during the …-rated tranches are not higher for banks with large trading books in regressions that control for bank size. The ratio of highly …-rated tranches holdings to assets increases with bank assets, but not for banks with more than $50 billion of assets. This evidence …

We investigate whether a bank's performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank's poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …

, real world exports plunged 17 percent while GDP fell 5 percent. This paper examines whether deteriorations in bank health … 1990 through 2010, which enables us to match exporters with the main bank that provides them with trade finance. Our point …