. We use a unique database for the French banking sector between 2003 and 2011 combining confidential bank-level Bank …

. We use a unique database for the French banking sector between 2003 and 2011 combining confidential bank-level Bank …

increase to the minimum capital requirement of a firm's primary bank is associated with 3 percent less borrowing, relative to … firms not facing increased capital requirements to their primary bank. While firm borrowing is sensitive to capital … requirements of their primary bank, I find, on average, no material effect on firm's assets growth as firms are able to substitute …

In this paper we aim to find out whether bank specialization and bank capitalization affect the relationship between … bank loan growth and bank capital ratio, both in expansions and in contractions. We hypothesize that the impact of bank …

Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing … competition materially boosts individual and systemic bank risk. With respect to the mechanisms, we find that competition reduces …

of higher capital requirements on the cost of capital. We find that bank's funding costs increase insignificantly for …

first comprehensive empirical analysis of bank CoCo issues, a market segment that comprises over 730 instruments totaling … $521 billion. Four main findings emerge: 1) The propensity to issue a CoCo is higher for larger and better …-capitalized banks; 2) CoCo issues result in statistically significant declines in issuers' CDS spreads, indicating that they generate …

performance for a sample of European commercial banks. We measure banks' ownership network by the distance between the bank and … diseconomies of diversification vanish the farther is the bank in the pyramid so that the farthest banks enjoy economies of …

, policymakers, and bank managers for better decision making. …