In October 2006, Dominion Bond Rating Service (DBRS) introduced new ratings for banks that account for the potential of … government support. The rating changes are not a reflection of any changes in the respective banks’ credit fundamentals. We use … banks with higher bail out probabilities tend to increase their risk taking less compared to banks that were ex ante …

Granger-causality tests in a dynamic GMM panel estimator framework on an exhaustive dataset of Czech banks from 2000 to 2010 … was mainly driven by large banks. We show that capital is found to negatively Granger-cause liquidity creation but also …

borrow hypothesis, banks with lower capital/asset ratios were more likely to borrow. Banks with a higher reserve ratio …