Using a new structural model of credit risk based on the normal instead of the lognormal firm value dynamics and market price implied asset value volatility as the model volatility input, we quantify the value of credit spreads of the four largest U.S. banks had their senior unsecured bonds...

We identify the origin of the contradicting perspectives on credit creation offered by Austrian, Mainstream and Post Keynesian economists as the neglect of the primacy of such assets as goods, properties and securities, which always pre-exist any transaction and loan. We develop a unified...

We investigate how funding liquidity affects the bank lending using a large sample of US bank holding companies. We document a consistent evidence of a lower loan growth for banks that rely more on deposits. The quantile regressions which dissect the lending behavior of banks at the right tail...

In this paper it will be shown that large banks have a lower deposit rate, offer more competitive prices and finally realize higher profitability than the small ones. Data cover Western European Banks as well as the United States during the period 1997-2008. Data source is O.E.C.D. Panel data...

Combining deposit taking with credit line provision saves on the liquidity costs banks incur to meet the liquidity needs of consumers and corporations, but it exposes them to a risk of concurrent runs on their assets and liabilities. If a bank's financial condition deteriorates, depositors have...

A lending boom is reflected in the composition of bank liabilities when traditional retail deposits (core liabilities) cannot keep pace with asset growth and banks turn to other funding sources (non-core liabilities) to finance their lending. We formulate a model of credit supply as the flip...