We develop a new identification strategy to evaluate the impact of the geographic expansion of bank holding company … (BHC) assets across U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) on BHC risk. We find that the geographic expansion of bank …

the recent financial crisis to identify bank specific factors that determine risk. We find that systemic risk grows with … bank size and is inversely related to bank capital, and this effect exists above and beyond the effect of bank size and … capital on standalone bank risk. Our results contribute to the ongoing debate on the merits of imposing systemic risk …

to individual banks in the Merton tradition (1974) as a combination put option for the deep tail of bank losses and a … knock-in stop-loss call on bank assets. This model expresses the value of taxpayer loss exposure from a string of defaults … the face value of the debt of the entire sector. We conceive of an individual bank's systemic risk as its contribution to …

capitalization ratios of small US bank holding companies (BHCs) are substantially lower than the reported ratios. Empirical evidence … deductions for investments in minority-owned affiliates. These findings have important implications for the regulation of bank …

The recent global financial crisis has ignited a debate on whether easy monetary conditions can lead to greater bank … cutoff depends on the degree of bank competition. It is therefore expected to vary across countries and over time …

This paper contributes to the debate by showing that the relationship between the monetary policy stance and bank risk …