This paper empirically investigates banks' investment allocations over the recent business cycle. I identify … the pre-recession period, banks lend 38 percent of incremental deposits; however, during the downturn, banks favor liquid … assets and lending allocations fall to 22 percent. Banks with low risk tolerance or less access to liquidity are particularly …

This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … by low-capital banks to improve regulatory ratios. At the portfolio level, the difference in borrower probability of … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks' risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …

lending. We find that the guidance primarily impacted large, closely supervised banks, but only after supervisors issued … more lax lending policies than banks, we unveil important evidence that nonbanks increased bank borrowing following the … issuance of guidance, possibly to finance their growing leveraged lending. The guidance was effective at reducing banks …

We examine liquidity creation per unit of assets by banks subject to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) using the … asset pair with different LCR weights, and the differential implementation of LCR by the very large and less-large LCR banks …. We find that, since 2013, there has been reduced liquidity creation by LCR banks compared to non-LCR banks, occurring …

We estimate the cost of capital for the banking industry and find that while the cost of capital soared for banks in … the financial crisis, after the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act, the value-weighted cost of capital for banks fell … differentially more than did the cost of capital for nonbanks. The very largest banks drive the decline in expected returns. Over a …

Historically, nonfinancial corporations relied on performance targets linked to their EPS. Up until the 1970s, banks … explaining banks' market values. In this paper we present a model of a bank with fixed-rate deposit insurance that faces …