Cross-border bank positions in Asia and the Pacific remain highly concentrated to few counterparties, exposing the … financial stability. To this end, we construct cross-border bank concentration measures for 47 economies in Asia and the Pacific …, are significantly associated with lower cross-border bank concentration. Moreover, elevated cross-border bank …

This paper analyzes the implications of the gradual rise in bank concentration since the 1990s for the transmission of … the level of local bank concentration and bank capitalization. I find that banks operating in high-concentration markets … in local deposit and loan markets, along with bank capital requirements, lead to frictions on the pass-through to the …

How does a bank react when a substantial share of its borrowers suffer a large negative shock? To answer this question … we exploit the 2014 collapse of energy prices using the universe of Mexican commercial bank loans. We show that, after …, relaxing credit margins to their larger debtors in the sector. An increase of one standard deviation in a bank's ex …

bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

reserves and lend to each other. Our systemic perspective points to these featuring dimensions of ongoing bank activity. Our … model considers bank activity process within each bank entity and across entities. Each bank keeps currency money in bank … deposits on behalf of other agents. But the bank activity is further characterised by the capacity or privilege to use these …