The paper employs a unique identification strategy that links survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank level data in order to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consumption expenditures. Specifically, we show that households whose banks were...

In October 2006, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) introduced new ratings for banks that account for the potential of government support. The rating changes are not a reflection of any changes in the respective banks’ credit fundamentals. We use this natural experiment to evaluate the...

The paper employs a unique identification strategy that links survey data on household consumption expenditure to bank-level data in order to estimate the effects of bank financial distress on consumer credit and consumption expenditures. Specifically, we show that households whose banks were...

AbstractThe following sections are included:IntroductionThe EventMethodologyGuarantees and Risk-TakingThe Net Effect of Guarantees—The Role of Charter ValuesNormal Times versus Crisis TimesDiscussion and ConclusionReferencesAppendix 1. Listed Banks Implicated by the DBRS Introduction of the SA...

This paper empirically examines the role of soft information in the competitive interaction between relationship and transaction banks. Soft information can be interpreted as a private signal about the quality of a firm that is observable to a relationship bank, but not to a transaction bank. We...

We investigate the effects of ABS downgrades on deal parents/sponsors prior to the mortgage crisis in order to establish whether securitization markets functioned in an incentive-compatible manner before the summer of 2007. We demonstrate that ABS downgrades are not typically caused by weak...

Both accounting and regulatory treatments classify securitizations as a ldquo;salerdquo; of assets, therefore allowing the issuer to remove the assets from their books. This ldquo;off-balance sheetrdquo; treatment relies crucially on the concept of ldquo;truerdquo; sale. The concept most...

The authors document leverage, capital and liquidity ratios of banks in Canada. These ratios are important indicators of different types of risk with respect to a bank’s balance-sheet management. Particular attention is given to the observations by different types of banks, including small...

"This study looks at the determinants of entry by Turkish banks into local markets during the periods before and after the crisis of 2000-2001. Motivated by a theoretical model of entry, results of fixed-effects logit regressions suggest that there has been a change in the geographical...