Brancati, Emanuele - 2016
insignificant; it is only when a bank has limited access to new funds that maturing debt has a detrimental impact on default risk … expectations about the bank's future profitability. In other words, short-term debt is not a cause of fragility but the result of … creditors losing faith in the long-run prospects of the bank, hence forcing it to shorten its debt maturity. Finally, we build a …