markets in bank holding companies to isolate plausibly exogenous variation in the financial constraints faced by subsidiary … banks. In particular, I demonstrate that affiliated bank loan growth is less sensitive to changes in the federal funds rate …

particular, I find that a bank affiliated with a multi-bank holding company is significantly safer than either a stand-alone bank … or a bank affiliated with a one-bank holding company. Not only does affiliation reduce the probability of future … other banks. Moreover, the effects of affiliation are strengthened for an expanding bank holding company. However, the …

behavior and risk sensitivity of a risk-neutral bank. The bank is exposed to credit risk and may use credit default swaps (CDS …) for hedging purposes. Regulation is found to induce the risk-neutral bank to behave in a more risk-sensitive way: Compared …. Under the Substitution Approach in Basel II (and III) a risk-neutral bank will over-, fully or under-hedge its total …

such cooperative practices. There are two adjacent markets with one savings or cooperative bank being focused on each one … and one private commercial bank serving both. We find that abolishing regional demarcation indeed increases total loan … shields the private commercial bank from aggressive competition by these banks. …

Central bank policy suffers from time-inconsistency when facing a banking crisis : A bailout is optimal ex post but ex … reputation for the central bank are high, monitoring effort by the banker is important in improving returns, and when the cost of …

-European Bank mergers. In this paper we identify other more fundamental reasons for a limited degree of cross-country integration in …-border bank mergers. The paper derives the impact of different underlying stochastic structures on the optimal structure of cross … regional bank mergers. Imposing a symmetry restriction on the underlying stochastic structure of liquidity shocks we find that …

Outright bank failures without prior indication of financial instability are very rare. Supervisory authorities monitor … regarded as troubled to varying degrees before outright closure. But to our knowledge virtually all studies that predict bank … failures neglect the ordinal nature of bank distress. Exploiting the distress database of the Deutsche Bundesbank we …

Ongoing financial innovation and greater information availability increase the tradability of bank assets and reduce … banks' dependence on individual bank managers as private information in the lending process declines. In this paper we argue … bank managers and shareholders becomes less severe. Consequently, banks' capital structure needs to be less concerned with …