their banking systems. The main bank support measures - direct capital support, removal and guarantees of bad assets, direct … manage skillfully the lifting of bank support measures. Third, I conduct stress tests of the banking systems. The stress …

This paper presents an analysis of the dynamic measures of volatility connectedness of major bank stocks in the US and …

We develop a model of the joint capital structure decisions of banks and their borrowers. Strikingly high bank leverage … emerges naturally from the interplay between two sets of forces. First, seniority and diversification reduce bank asset … and fragility. Deposit insurance and the expectation of government bailouts increase not only bank risk taking, but also …

60% of US mortgage market. Exploiting within-servicer variation in this data, we find that bank-held loans are 26% to 36 … of bank-held loans are more efficient: conditional on a modification, bank-held loans have lower post …

concentration indices (k bank concentration ratios (CR5) and the Herfindahl-Hirschman indices (HHI)).Empirical analysis shows that …

2007-2009. The fear is that if a big bank gets into trouble, its problems will infect other financial institutions and … there are huge complexities at almost every level. What is “big?” How big is too big? What is a “bank?” What kinds of risk …-taking are appropriate for a bank – and why? What do we know about the costs and benefits of different strategies? This paper …

of bank-specific factors and macroeconomics variables on efficiency (NIM). The results show that in general, the banking …