This essay discusses the corporate governance of banks. Bank managers must balance competing demands from shareholders … creditors, and integrates bank regulation into the concept of debt governance. The empirical section surveys the extant …) and regulators (debt governance) can meaningfully coexist in their quest to guide and constrain bank managers. …

This paper offers an overview of the mandate of the European Central Bank (ECB), as defined by its objectives, the …

Our concern in this paper is two-fold: first to see whether the determinants of bank distress and failure have been any …-weighted counterparts as predictors, despite the focus on the later in the Basel framework. This paper examines bank distress within a large … predict bank failures and draw inferences about the stability of contributing bank characteristics. Our models incorporate …

simulation exercise is performed on how various external shocks affect the balance sheet of an average European bank under the … introduction of full fair value accounting could have a significant effect in terms of income volatility, procyclicality of bank …

countries. The European Central Bank (ECB), jointly with the Banking Supervision Committee (BSC), has an interest in monitoring …

diversify the sources of revenues was apparent. The cost and profit efficiency analysis based on 33 bank-to-bank mergers …