This paper demonstrates that subordinated debt (‘subdebt' thereafter) regulation can be an effective mechanism for disciplining banks. Under our proposal, investors buy the subdebt of a bank only if they receive favourable information about the bank, and the bank is subject to a regulatory...

This paper investigates how lenders react to borrowers' rating changes under heterogeneous conditions and different regulatory regimes. Our findings suggest that corporate downgrades that increase capital requirements for lending banks under the Basel II framework are associated with increased...

This paper proposes that whether interconnectedness among banks leads to financial instability depends on banks' leverage decisions. It extends the network model in Allen et al. (2012) to study the relationship between interconnectedness and the banks' failure probability. In the model, banks...