rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 … respect to four of the others. So far the U.S. has avoided Japan's problem of having impaired banks prop up zombie firms …

macroeconomic and bank regulatory reform. Bank regulatory policy promoted privatization, financial liberalization, and free entry …. Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market …

their investors. We show the bank has to have a fragile capital structure, subject to bank runs, in order to perform these … functions. Far from being an aberration to be regulated away, the funding of illiquid loans by a bank with volatile demand … such as narrow banking and bank capital requirements …

recognizing greater risks and losses, can lead to solvency problems that look like liquidity (bank-run) crises. Regulatory …

We develop a theory of bank board risk committees. With this theory, such committees are valuable even though there is … no expectation that bank risk is lower if the bank has a well-functioning risk committee. As predicted by our theory (1 …) many large and complex banks voluntarily chose to have a risk committee before the Dodd-Frank Act forced bank holding …

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 …

Bank balance sheet lending is commonly viewed as the predominant form of lending. We document and study two margins of … document the limits of the shadow bank substitution margin: shadow banks substitute for traditional--deposit-taking--banks in … quantitative consequences of several policies on lending volume and pricing, bank stability, and the distribution of consumer …

-dimensional borrower heterogeneity. Based on characterizations of securities' implicit demand for bank equity capital, we obtain closed …-form expressions for the composition of credit, including a sufficient statistic for the provision of bank loans, and a novel cross …