Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as … dividend payments alone. The paper also examines the role that repurchases played in large BHCs' decisions to reduce or …-crisis repurchases and the size of dividend reductions for these institutions. …

bank's financing structure. In our model the bank's assets consist of illiquid loans and liquid reserves and are financed … to an exogenous rollover risk. We show that the use of repos inflicts two types of indirect (“shadow”) costs on the bank …'s shareholders: first, it induces the bank to maintain higher liquid reserves in order to alleviate the additional default risk …

-shifting and signaling motives of banks. We estimate an empirical model of bank payouts to assess the extent to which changes in … payouts are commensurate with worsening fundamentals. Controlling for fundamentals, bank dividends appear excessive in 2007 …, but not in 2008. Announcements of dividend cuts are not associated with a significant negative price reaction neither …

Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as … dividend payments alone. The paper also examines the role that repurchases played in large BHCs' decisions to reduce or …-crisis repurchases and the size of dividend reductions for these institutions …

(PIPEs), and TARP. Equity markets were important for bank recapitalization in the crisis, when SEO and PIPE issuance peaked …. We find that bank characteristics predict issuance whereas trading indicators influence issuance type. Large, well … selective. Bank illiquidity was another incentive to issue. Banks with lower trading activity and wider spreads were more likely …

greater insider ownership leads to less equity issuances. Several tests are consistent with the view that bank insiders are … between bank equity and lending, the results stress that ownership structure can shape the resilience of banks-and hence the …

' reporting incentives played a key role, which has important implications for bank supervision and the new expected loss model …This paper examines banks' disclosures and loss recognition in the financial crisis and identifies several core issues …

We examine the economic benefits of paying dividends. We find that dividend payments mitigate stock price crash risk …. In addition, we show that dividend payments reduce bad news hoarding (overinvestment) while bad news hoarding … enhancing earnings quality (e.g., Skinner and Soltes, 2011) by adding that dividend payments generate economic benefits in the …

We consider a model in which the threat of bank liquidations by creditors as well as equity-based compensation … incentives both discipline bankers, but with different consequences. Greater use of equity leads to lower ex ante bank liquidity …, whereas greater use of debt leads to a higher probability of inefficient bank liquidation. The bank's privately …