signal on bank project quality, short-term wholesale financiers have lower incentives to conduct costly monitoring, and …

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

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 …

-deposit creditors. Testing the model using EU bank level data yields evidence consistent with the model, suggesting that explicit …

multinational bank. We take a political economy approach to regulation and assume that supervisors maximize the welfare of their own … interests are, the higher is welfare; (3) the bank can allocate its investments strategically across countries to escape closure. …

Using a unique dataset of the Euro area and the U.S. bank lending standards, we find that low (monetary policy) short … securitization activity, weak supervision for bank capital and too low for too long monetary policy rates. Conversely, low long …