finding is a negative and significant relationship between the degree of concentration of European bank markets and the market … bank conduct. This support for the market power hypothesis indicates that further measures are needed to make bank lending …

their domestic sovereign, causing a negative bank-sovereign doom loop. Several motivations for such behavior have been … involve some degree of irrational behavior. We depart from this approach and investigate the risk-return trade-off in the bank …

is mainly driven by non-performing loans and by the negative impact of policy rates on bank interest margins. The higher … US bank valuations are mainly driven by higher profitability and better cost efficiency. Our results for European banks … stress the importance of timely NPL resolution and imply that low-for-long monetary policy may harm bank health …

equity ratio, loan quality and bank size are the main determinants of bank bailout involvement. However, the aided banks … sufficient to restore bank health …