their effects on the bank risk, liquidity and profitability before the crisis event and contributes to the recent scarce … performance. Nevertheless, the effect of residential mortgage loans securitization on bank risk appeared to be negative after the … crisis, indicating that the securitization of this type of credit can reduce the bank risk in the detriment of a lower profit …

We present a model where bank assets are a portfolio of risky debt claims and analyze stockholders' risk …-taking behavior while considering the strategic interaction between debtors and creditors. We find that: (1) as the leverage of a bank … demonstrates that an increase in comovement of a loan portfolio increases the bank's cost of default directly, we find that the …

This paper investigates whether monitoring by bank lenders affects CEO incentives of borrowing firms. We find that an … increase in bank monitoring incentives significantly reduce the sensitivity of CEO wealth to stock return volatility (Vega …). The results are more profound when bank lenders are more powerful and reputable and have a prior lending relationship with …

arbitrage. I develop a framework to study bank regulation with strategic selection of risk models. A bank supervisor can …

a decrease in bank equity risk. We show theoretically, that keeping less capital in excess of the minimum capital … capitalization is a significant determinant of equity risk, and can explain why bank equity risk has not become lower after the Great …, reduced the cost of bank debt …

This paper analyzes the impact of US firms’ equity risk on bank lending standards and on the macroeconomy for two … an increase in firm risk on bank lending standards and the economy are amplified in a recession compared to an expansion. …