In this paper we study systemic risk for North America and Europe. We show that banks' exposures to common risk factors … are crucial for systemic risk. We come to this conclusion by first showing that relations between North American and … financial crisis than North American ones. Regarding the consequences of systemic risk, we show that dependence between the …

This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk … increase their risk-taking. This increase in risk-taking however, should be more than outweighed by the benefits of higher …

We show that banks' risk exposure in one asset category affects how they report regulatory risk weights for another … asset category. Specifically, banks report lower credit risk weights for their loan portfolio when they face higher risk … constraints. Our results suggest the existence of incentive spillovers across different risk categories. We relate this behavior …

What is the impact of policy interventions on the systemic risk of banks? To answer this question, we analyze a …-affected European banks between 2005 and 2014. We find a positive and significant association of 'guarantees' with systemic risk, which … different for large banks. 'Liquidity injections' are similarly positively linked with systemic risk, but the long run effect is …

subject to rollover risk. A bank’s optimal borrowing trades off the benefit from investing additional funds into profitable … assets with the cost of greater risk of a run by bank creditors. Changes in the interest rate affect the price and amount of …

subject to rollover risk. A bank's optimal borrowing trades off the benefit from investing additional funds into profitable … assets with the cost of greater risk of a run by bank creditors. Changes in the interest rate affect the price and amount of …

In summer 2011, elevated sovereign risk in Eurozone peripheral countries increased the solvency risk of Eurozone banks … funding pressure for banks, but did not help to contain sovereign risk. In fact, banks of the peripheral countries used the … public funds to increase their exposure to risky domestic debt, so that when solvency risk in the Eurozone worsened the run …

the zero-risk weight exemption for European banks for European sovereign debt amplifies the co-movement between sovereign … safer core countries, but not in the opposite direction nor for exposures to countries not exempted from risk-weighting. We … consider the trade-off of benefits of sovereign debt (for banks and sovereigns) and spillover risk when applying risk …

This paper investigates contagion between bank risk and sovereign risk in Europe over the period 2006-2011. Since this … period covers various stages of the banking and sovereign crisis, it offers a fertile ground to analyze bank/sovereign risk … vulnerable to risk spillovers. At the country level, the debt ratio is the most important driver of contagion. …