risk in which all banks choose inefficiently high leverage to fund correlated assets and market discipline is compromised … ; systemic risk ; bailout ; forbearance ; moral hazard ; capital requirements …

regular core capital requirement that helps deter excessive risk-taking incentives. The second tier, a novel aspect of our … framework, is a special capital account that limits risk taking but preserves creditors' monitoring incentives. -- capital … requirements ; leverage ; systemic risk …

against the benefit of equity in attenuating risk-shifting. However, faced with socially-costly correlated bank failures …, regulators bail out creditors. Anticipation of this generates multiple equilibria, including one with systemic risk in which …

against the benefit of equity in attenuating risk-shifting. However, faced with socially-costly correlated bank failures …, regulators bail out creditors. Anticipation of this generates multiple equilibria, including one with systemic risk in which …

We study empirically the effect of focus (specialization) vs. diversification on the return and the risk of banks using … high risk banks), sectoral loan diversification produces an inefficient risk-return tradeoff only for high risk banks, and … geographical diversification results in an improvement in the risk-return tradeoff for banks with low levels of risk. A robust …

financial development has important consequences for the efficiency and specialization (or diversification) of investments, in a …

turn, banks hoard liquidity and decrease term lending as their rollover risk increases over the term of the loan. High …

-seeking behavior by firms. Firms with high liquidity risk are likely to use cash rather than credit lines for liquidity management … because the cost of monitored liquidity insurance increases with liquidity risk. We exploit a quasi-experiment around the … downgrade of General Motors (GM) and Ford in 2005 and find that firms that experienced an exogenous increase in liquidity risk …

-seeking behavior by firms. Firms with high liquidity risk are likely to use cash rather than credit lines for liquidity management … because the cost of monitored liquidity insurance increases with liquidity risk. We exploit a quasi-experiment around the … downgrade of General Motors (GM) and Ford in 2005 and find that firms that experienced an exogenous increase in liquidity risk …