Does an increase in competition increase or decrease bank stability? I exploit how the state-specific process of … significantly increases bank stability. This result is robust to the inclusion of additional fixed effects and other influences … loans and increases bank profitability. These findings suggest that competition increases stability as it improves bank …

likelihood to issue equity. In contrast to this view, for an international sample of bank Seasoned Equity Offerings (SEOs), we …

that well-functioning credit markets would reflect a bank channel for monetary policy at work, we test whether a change in … and the associated change in interest rate does not affect change in bank credit, change in total debt and the proportion … of bank credit in total debt for any of the firms. We discuss the policy implications of the findings. …

legacy of a debt overhang that dramatically constrained bank lending and served as a drag on economic growth in the post … linkages between the macro-financial vulnerabilities and a wide range of bank specific variables in 20 emerging European … inflation, while bank profitability as a proxy for management quality plays a significant role in constraining loan defaults. By …

particular, I find that a bank affiliated with a multi-bank holding company is significantly safer than either a stand-alone bank … or a bank affiliated with a one-bank holding company. Not only does affiliation reduce the probability of future … other banks. Moreover, the effects of affiliation are strengthened for an expanding bank holding company. However, the …

bank's financing structure. In our model the bank's assets consist of illiquid loans and liquid reserves and are financed … to an exogenous rollover risk. We show that the use of repos inflicts two types of indirect (“shadow”) costs on the bank …'s shareholders: first, it induces the bank to maintain higher liquid reserves in order to alleviate the additional default risk …

regulatory requirements. Our analytic characterization of the bank policy choices shows that imposing solely liquidity … requirements leads to lower bank losses in default at the cost of an increased likelihood of default. Combining liquidity … requirements with leverage requirements reduces drastically both the likelihood of default and the magnitude of bank losses in …

, an insight into how the ownership structure of a bank affects investment decisions, performance and ultimately insolvency …