This paper analyzes bank stock prices around the world to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the banking … policy announcements on the performance of bank stocks. Overall, the results suggest that the crisis and the countercyclical … lending role that banks are expected to play have put banking systems under significant stress, with bank stocks …

our findings by comparing banks to non-financial firms and examining changes in bank risk around an exogenous regulatory …

This paper examines how corporate governance and executive compensation affect bank capitalization strategies for an … to give rise to lower bank capitalization. Boards of intermediate size, separation of the CEO and chairman roles, and an … absence of anti-takeover provisions, in particular, lead to low bank capitalization. However, executive options and stock …

For an international sample of banks, we construct measures of a bank's absolute size and its systemic size defined as … size relative to the national economy. We then examine how a bank's risk and return, its activity mix and funding strategy … that a bank's interest cost tends to rise with its systemic size can also in part explain why a bank's rate of return on …

Using bank level measures of competition and co-dependence, we show a robust negative relationship between bank … shocks. Examining the impact of the institutional and regulatory environment on bank systemic risk shows that banking systems …

SME loans across foreign, private, and government-owned banks, even though different bank ownership types apply different …

. For an international sample of banks, this paper investigates the impact of government indebtedness and deficits on bank … stock prices and CDS spreads. Overall, bank stock prices reflect a negative capitalization of government debt and they … valuation in countries running large fiscal deficits. Furthermore, the change in bank CDS spreads in 2008 relative to 2007 …