This paper empirically examines how capital affects a bank's performance (survival and market share), and how this … effect varies across banking crises, market crises, and normal times that occurred in the U.S. over the past quarter century … all times (during banking crises, market crises, and normal times). Second, capital enhances the performance of medium and …

on foreign claims took place. For the largest 67 German banking groups, we find that both their characteristics and … behavior in the pre-crisis episode had repercussions for the crisis period. Above all, prior non-traditional banking activities …

loan syndicates, I shed light on the impact of a bank's LBO loan exposure on its systemic risk. By using 3,538 observations … are the bank's interconnectedness to other LBO financing banks and its size. Lending experience with a specific PE sponsor …, experience with leading LBO syndicates or a bank's credit rating, however, lead to a lower impact of the LBO loan exposure on …

This paper develops an analytical framework that can be used to anticipate problems in the banking system and enable … indicator that is intended to capture a number of the systemic risks that can affect the banking system as a whole. Second, it … develops a methodology to detect problems at the individual bank level in an effort to identify those firms with financial …

constrained efficient when supplemented with the same government liquidity regulation that is required to make a banking system …