bank and auction rates in its open market operations in times of financial market stress. In a theoretical model, it is … found that marginal rates at central bank auctions may increase if the share of troubled banks becomes too high relative to … market operations needed to absorb large stress levels in interbank money markets and hence contain central bank auction …

equilibrium is characterized by a deep market with highly leveraged banks. The crisis times equilibrium is characterized by bank …

experiment to examine the effect of government guarantees on bank risk taking, using a large data set of matched bank …

deposits towards non-deposit liabilities. We find that unobserved timeinvariant bank fixed effects are ultimately the most … important determinant of banks’ capital structures and that banks’ leverage converges to bank specific, time invariant targets …

We model the impact of bank mergers on loan competition, banks' reserve holdings and aggregate liquidity. Banks compete … in liquidity risk and expected liquidity needs for each bank and for the banking system. Large mergers tend to increase … expected aggregate liquidity needs, and thus the liquidity provision by the central bank. Comparative statics suggest that a …