role in determining a bank's IRS trading activity. …

capital and liquidity ratios, the leverage ratio plays a key role in determining a bank's IRS trading activity. 5) Also, after … mandatory central clearing, there is still a large dispersion in IRS transaction prices, which is partly determined by bank …

The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between bank characteristics,in particular value …, performance and volatility of bank stock returns, and its exposure to financial derivative contracts. The study is based on 109 … manually collected information from the notes to financial statements. After controlling for bank-specific characteristics, time …

protection selling in CDS, the effect being weaker when sovereign risk is high. Bank and country risk variables are mostly not … building a complete picture and understanding fully the economic drivers of the bank-sovereign nexus of risk …

protection selling in CDS, the effect being weaker when sovereign risk is high. Bank and country risk variables are mostly not … building a complete picture and understanding fully the economic drivers of the bank-sovereign nexus of risk …

Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending … on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis …