This study explores whether and how bank characteristics affect general risk-taking and tail risk of Too …

comprehensive sample that combines an original set of bank-specific bailout events with balance sheets of key affected and non …

Regulatory bank levies set incentives for banks to reduce leverage. At the same time, corporate income taxation makes … funding through debt more attractive. In this paper, we explore how regulatory levies affect bank capital structure, depending … on corporate income taxation. Based on bank balance sheet data from 2006 to 2014 for a panel of EU-banks, our analysis …

international subsidiary locations and risk of U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs). We find that U.S. BHCs are more likely to operate …

How do near-zero interest rates affect bank competition, risk taking and regulation? I study these questions in a … insurance may induce excessive risk taking. The zero lower bound on deposit rates (ZLB) distorts bank competition and boosts …

This study investigated the impact of banking integration on recipient country bank default risk and, in particular … study found that banking integration lowers bank default risk in recipient countries. The foreign claims that Asian lenders …

unweighted leverage requirements, their differential impact on bank lending, and equity buffer accumulation in excess of … regulatory minima. Tighter risk-weighted capital requirements reduce loan supply and lead to an endogenous fall in bank … profitability, reducing bank incentives to accumulate equity buffers and, therefore, increasing the incidence of bank failure …

arbitrage. I develop a framework to study bank regulation with strategic selection of risk models. A bank supervisor can …