In the wake of recent crisis developments in the US and Europe, non-bank credit channels have often been portrayed as … data. The available evidence actually points towards a correlation between the development of non-bank credit and higher …

Can a tightening of the bank resolution regime lead to more prudent bank behavior? This policy paper reviews arguments … for why this could be the case and presents evidence linking changes in bank resolution regimes with bank risk-taking. The … authors find that the tightening of bank resolution in the U.S. (i.e., the introduction of the Orderly Liquidation Authority …

a certain critical level. The sample covers during the period 2000–2007 commercial baking sector of Europe and USA. The …

lower the default risk of a bank. However, we find no evidence of cash bonuses exerting a risk-reducing effect when banks … are financially distressed or when banks operate under weak bank regulatory regimes. Our results link bonus compensation …

bank CEOs. For a panel of US and European banks, we employ the Merton distance to default model to estimate how bonus … payments and option holdings impact the level of bank default risk targeted by CEOs. We find that CEO cash bonuses reduce …