. Hedging these costs therefore requires banks to lend long term|i.e., to do maturity transformation. As predicted by this …

bank risk taking, commercial bank failure, interest rates on loans, and market structure. We propose a market structure … addition to aggregate shocks to the fraction of performing loans in their portfolio. A nontrivial bank size distribution arises … consistent with untargeted business cycle properties, the bank lending channel, and empirical studies of the role of …

income gap. Secondly, we show that income gap also predicts the sensitivity of bank lending to interest rates. Quantitatively …, a 100 basis point increase in the Fed funds rate leads a bank at the 75th percentile of the income gap distribution to … increase lending by about 1.6 percentage points annually relative to a bank at the 25th percentile …

A bank or other financial institution is potentially subject to at least four types of risk: (1) Credit risk …. This paper reports a study of the interest-rate elasticity of the net worth of a commercial bank. Most of the study is … devoted to the development of the necessary methodology to measure the interest-rate elasticity (IRE) of a bank's asset …

in the financial sector of the U.S. economy. The analysis focuses on contingent liability of bank owners for losses …

; ii) the impact of regulation; and iii) how bank closures exacerbated the post-war bust. The boom encouraged new bank … bank portfolios, while higher minimum capital requirements dampened the effects. Banks that responded most aggressively to … the asset boom had a higher probability of closing in the bust, and counties with more bank closures experienced larger …

Bank risk-based capital (RBC) standards require banks to hold differing amounts of capital for different classes of … weights accurately reflect bank asset risk, we find that the weights fail even in their limited goal of correctly quantifying … are considered in the RBC regulations. We also examine other types of bank risk by estimating a simple factor model that …