The determinants of default risk of banks in emerging economies have so far received inadequate attention in the … the economy. Public sector banks have shown significant performance in containing bad debts. Private banks have continued … banks, apart from other accepted determinants of profitability, asset size has no significant impact on profitability. …

This paper investigates the incentives for banks to bias their internally generated risk estimates. We are able to … by low-capital banks to improve regulatory ratios. At the portfolio level, the difference in borrower probability of … credits. In addition, we find that low-capital banks' risk estimates have less explanatory power than those of high …

We develop a dynamic model of banking to assess the effects of liquidity and leverage requirements on banks' insolvency … risk. In this model, banks face taxation, flotation costs of securities, and default costs and maximize shareholder value … regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity …

resilience. Yet in today’s environment of excessive liquidity due to very low interest rates and quantitative easing, bank …

liquidity. We give an overview of applications to stress testing, including both microprudential and macroprudential stress … banks …

banks experience positive abnormal equity returns and tighter CDS spreads, while failing banks show strong drops in equity … evaluating strategic options for affected banks and investors …

This paper studies the extent to which monetary policy may affect banks' perception of credit risk and the way banks … indicators on banks' risk weights for credit risk. We present robust evidence of the existence of the risk-taking channel in the … possible side-effects of monetary policy on how banks measure risk. …

The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to study the determinants of banks' net interest margin with a particular … for banks of the relaxation of a binding prudential limit on maturity mismatch, in place in Italy until the mid-2000s. The …