When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, one way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If … asset sales occur at depressed prices, then one bank's sales may impact other banks with common exposures, resulting in … explains how the distribution of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank …

to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …

-of-second-to-last-resort". Using daily supervisory bank balance sheet information, we find that U.S. GSIBs modestly increase their dollar liquidity … broker-dealer subsidiaries within the same bank holding company are crucial to this type of "reserve-draining" intermediation …

We analyze a variant of the Diamond-Dybvig (1983) model of banking in which savers can use a bank to invest in a risky … project operated by an entrepreneur. The savers can buy equity in the bank and save via deposits. The bank chooses to invest … in a safe asset or to fund the entrepreneur. The bank and the entrepreneur face limited liability and there is a …

We investigate the origins and growth of the Financial Stability Mandate (FSM) to examine why bank supervisors, inside … changes in the FSM, (2) whether supervision should be conducted within the central bank or in independent agencies and (3 …) whether supervision should be rules- or discretion/principles-based. As histories of bank supervision are few, we focus on the …

closing data gaps include the G20 Data Gaps Initiative, which recommends the collection of consistent bank-level data for …