Europe in a transition status. The adoption of Euro, the establishment of the European Central Bank, the Basil III initiative …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression, there is … significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this …, except that large banks from countries with more restrictions on bank activities performed better and decreased loans less …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression …, there is significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …

asset risk, measured by either the risk weightings of the Basel system or individual bank volatility, has a perverse …

range of real sectors is limited. Our results imply that regulators and supervisors should address international bank … dependencies arising from common risk factors, while recessions in real sectors due to bank defaults should be a secondary concern. …

by euro zone member solvency issues. In this paper, we examine the contagion effects between sovereign and bank CDS … effects between sovereign vs. bank default risk. By contrast, since the sovereign debt crisis period we observe significant … dependencies between the regional sovereign CDS and the regional bank CDS in other regions, predominantly for the Asia-Pacific and …

. These events include financial crises, phenomenal incidents that shock the economic world and pose significant challenges …

countries, using that index to examine relations between national codes of governance, individual bank risk governance and both … results will be useful for bank regulators and bank managers …