This paper analyzes the effect of bank recapitalizations on lending, funding and asset quality of European banks …

develops a methodology to detect problems at the individual bank level in an effort to identify those firms with financial … facilitate bank monitoring tasks, as well as some disaggregated subcomponents that are intended to display the relative …

Business cycles imply liquidity risks for banks. This paper explores how these risks influence bank lending over the … cycle. With forward-looking banks, lending cycles, credit booms and busts, or suppressed and highly fragile bank systems can … unpleasant effects on bank lending. Imposing countercyclical capital adequacy ratio may amplify procyclicality or result in …

Toxic mortgage related assets in bank portfolios have tested the pervasive free market wisdom that markets can … bank regulators alike to unveil the true risk inherent in management actions. Subordinated debt can act as an effective … market evaluation of the riskiness of a particular bank. Second, subordinated debt issuance is thought to fulfill a …

ratio) and size (TBA) of the industry are linked to lower sovereign risk in general. Foreign bank penetration and …