This study investigates the link between capital market discipline and bank-level credit risk with a special emphasis on the role of bank ownership structure. Focusing on a large emerging market, Turkey, characterized by prominent state bank presence, our baseline regression results indicate...

We model bank management actions in severe stress test conditions using a game-theoretical framework. Banks update their balance sheets to strategically maximize risk-adjusted returns to shareholders given three regulatory constraints and feedback effects related to fire sales, interactions of...

This paper explains the nature of interest rates in the U.S. federal funds market after the 2007-09 financial crisis. We build a model of the over-the-counter lending market that incorporates new aspects of the financial system: abundance of liquidity, different regulatory standards for banks,...

We examine risk taking when the bank's preferences exhibit smooth ambiguity aversion. Ambiguity is modeled by a second-order probability distribution that captures the bank's uncertainty about which of the subjective beliefs govern the financial asset return risk. Ambiguity preferences are...

Bonds are among the main source of external funding for Italian banks and one of the most important financial assets held by Italian households. The bond-to-deposit ratio of Italian banks is about 40%, the highest value in Europe after Germany, while the share of bank bonds on Italian...

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether listed banks in Ghana realised higher risk adjusted return than the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All Share Index and also investigate whether listed banks offer portfolio diversification as part of investment portfolio. The study provides an insight...

In this paper, we provide the first evidence of liquidity timing ability of mutual funds outside US. We propose a new model to study liquidity timing ability of mutual funds. The model matches the higher moment framework required for emerging market study. We find that on the average the mutual...