A bank's decision on loan supply and capital structure determines its immediate bankruptcy risk as well as the future availability of internal funds. These internal funds in turn determine a bank's future costs of external finance and future vulnerability to bankruptcy risks. We study these...

Die Finanzkrise hat gezeigt, dass das Eigenkapital vieler Banken zu gering war. Ulrich van Suntum und Cordelius Ilgmann, Universität Münster, weisen darauf hin, dass zwar die bilanziellen Eigenkapitalquoten der Banken sowohl im Euroraum als auch in den USA mittlerweile sogar höher sind als...

Deteriorating public finances around the world raise doubts about countries' abilities to bail out their largest banks. For an international sample of banks, this paper investigates the impact of government indebtedness and deficits on bank stock prices and credit default swap spreads. Overall,...