We investigate the relationship between bank complexity and bank risk-taking using German banking data over the period …

the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

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 …

In this study we disentangle two dimensions of banks' systemic risk: the level of bank tail risk and the linkage … between a bank's tail risk and severe shocks in the financial system. We employ a measure of the systemic risk of financial … bank characteristics are related to bank tail risk and systemic linkage. The interrelationship between bank characteristics …

contributes to the current debate on the optimal scope of bank activities, and highlights novel channels through which …

Bank leverage ratios have made an impressive and largely unopposed return; they are mostly used alongside risk …-weighted capital requirements. The reasons for this return are manifold, and they are not limited to the fact that bank equity levels … straightforward real estate loans. Bank leverage ratios are primarily seen as a microprudential measure that intends to increase bank …

In this paper we empirically analyze the determinants of bank default risk (measured by the banks' CDS spreads) for … European banks during the period 2008-2018. We examine the effect of (1) bank business model characteristics, (2) sovereign … document that accommodative ECB actions in general lower bank default risk. We also show that the downward effect of monetary …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of supervisory discipline on bank risk over the years immediately before … public. Access to this information allows a complete analysis of the effects of regulatory enforcement actions on bank … effective tool for slowing declines in a bank's capital ratios and informal actions were relatively less potent. Post …