of bank failure is sufficiently large, the surplus as well. Our results in overall highlight the need to take into …

This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …

empirical support. We conclude that bank equity is not socially expensive, and that high leverage at the levels allowed, for …

firm incentives in a post-reform financial system. -- Financial regulatory reform ; corporate governance ; bank charter … ; bank insolvency …

I study the association between bank financial reporting opacity, measured by delayed expected loan loss recognition …, and the intervention decisions made by bank regulators. Examining U.S. commercial banks during the 2007-2009 financial … the extant literature on bank opacity, regulatory forbearance, and the consequences of loan loss provisioning by …