bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

, funding costs, and prudential regulation. A bank’s choice of encumbrance trades off the benefit of expanding profitable …

, funding costs, and prudential regulation. A bank's choice of encumbrance trades off the benefit of expanding profitable …

per year. In competitive lending markets, a change of this magnitude would have doubled or tripled spreads, because bank …

must be carefully analysed before endorsing the general statement that “bank equity is not expensive”. In fact, specific … argue that market prices (notably price-to-book ratios) should play a primary role in bank supervision. To support our …-shifting phenomena on banks' assets, notably when price-to-book values are below one, may increase the overall risk of the bank, and …

regulatory liquidity requirements on bank behavior. A multi-stage decision situation allows for considering the interaction … between credit risk and liquidity risk of banks. This interaction is found to make a risk neutral bank behave as if it were …

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …