For an international sample of banks, the authors construct measures of a bank's absolute size and its systemic size … defined as size relative to the national economy. They examine how a bank's risk and return, its activity mix and funding … save. The finding that a bank's interest cost tends to rise with its systemic size can also in part explain why a bank …

the recent financial crisis to identify bank specific factors that determine risk. We find that systemic risk grows with … bank size and is inversely related to bank capital, and this effect exists above and beyond the effect of bank size and … capital on standalone bank risk. Our results contribute to the ongoing debate on the merits of imposing systemic risk …

adverse consequences of disorderly bank failures. However, this promise of support comes at a cost: large, complex or … average bank. The authors obtain similar results when they assess the effect of increased support on net charge-offs and when …

For an international sample of banks, the authors construct measures of a bank's absolute size and its systemic size … defined as size relative to the national economy. They examine how a bank's risk and return, its activity mix and funding … save. The finding that a bank's interest cost tends to rise with its systemic size can also in part explain why a bank …

For an international sample of banks, we construct measures of a bank's absolute size and its systemic size defined as … size relative to the national economy. We then examine how a bank's risk and return, its activity mix and funding strategy … that a bank's interest cost tends to rise with its systemic size can also in part explain why a bank's rate of return on …