, we show that a trade-off exists for regulators between banks' performance and stability in Italy. Two key findings … provide evidence for the nontriviality of the return-risk nexus: (i) banks' liquidations are concentrated at the lower-end of …

growth in the Swedish non-bank sector is driven by regulatory arbitrage from banks. Instead, we find that the main drivers …

This paper studies how financial intermediation varies across banks. Bank size is a first-order determinant of banks …' capital structure in the cross-section. Largest banks have the lowest capital-to-asset ratio and the lowest ratio of Tier-1 … capital against risk-weighted assets. These large banks earn a larger interest income per dollar invested in their loan …

significantly increases systemic risk. In particular, herding in real estate loans by big banks contribute more to systemic risk. We …

13 large banks accounting for 75% of total UK lending. We document a substantial change in the coefficient of the Tier 1 …

Chinese banks have sought ways to rapidly expand lending in light of strict regulatory mandates to reduce official … collateralize repurchases remain a channel for banks to increase their balance sheet and reduce official lending. Many banks even … classify repurchase lending underneath the heading of lending to banks. As back door lending funds roll-overs and commodity …

banks (CSBs) had on the quality of their borrowers' financial statements. Using a difference-in-difference research design …-on-assets (ROA) after a bank's IPO. We also find that pursuant to the IPOs by their lending banks, various measures of borrowers' FRQ …