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 …

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 …

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 …

a fundamental link between efficient bank resolution and the operational structures and risks of global banks …