monetary policy. The theory unifies an endogenous supply of illiquid local loans and risk-sharing among subsidiaries of bank …

We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company … (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank …

widespread stress, with adverse affects on bank intermediation thereafter. We discuss the bank capital and the bank funding … conclude by discussing the increasing extension of bank credit lines to non-bank financial intermediaries, as well as the role …

The first part of this paper provides a historical perspective on bank risks. Five-year moving average measures of … outside New York banks from 1950-1976.We use a carefully constructed series of bank balance sheet data to compute correlations … proposed in Sharpe ("Bank Capital Adequacy, Deposit Insurance and Security Values," June 1978) to gain information about …

of deposit insurance as a function of capital-asset ratio for a bank with demand liabilities and longer term, default …

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 …

through central bank purchases of privately held risky assets and their replacement by government debt, with a return that is … they are born. I show that a change in the asset composition of the central bank's balance sheet will change equilibrium … asset prices. Further, I prove that a policy in which the central bank stabilizes fluctuations in the stock market is Pareto …

deposits excessively fragile in which case there is a role for outside bank capital. Greater bank capital reduces liquidity … creation by the bank but enables the bank to survive more often and avoid distress. A more subtle effect is that banks with … different amounts of capital extract different amounts of repayment from borrowers. The optimal bank capital structure trades …