Background: Most Bank holding companies (BHCs) sustains significant losses and increased risk exposure which caused them to become insolvent. BHCs that become insolvent have a negative impact on the U.S. economy. There is a lack of effective practice towards capital regulation that causes BHC to...

This paper approximates a construction of Basel III's Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) for U.S. bank holding companies. This study examines: (i) the LCR's marginal contribution to a firm's systemic risk and, (ii) whether the LCR can predict ex ante which banks are most exposed to systemic losses...

Using panel smooth transition regression framework on a new proxy of business cycle (BC) index and quarterly data of US bank holding companies from 1993Q1 to 2020Q1, our results provide the empirical support to the theory that BC has non-linear effect on liquidity creation. We find a positive...