Although policymakers often discuss tradeoffs between bank competition and stability, past research provides differing … competition materially boosts individual and systemic bank risk. With respect to the mechanisms, we find that competition reduces … theoretical perspectives and empirical results on the impact of competition on risk. In this paper, we employ a new approach for …

financial crises more reliably, and stimulate the build-up of bank capital before a crisis. …

(Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then …

instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes for bank lending growth. The collective analysis has … three main findings. First, prudential instrument effects sometimes spill over across borders through bank lending. Second …, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank-specific factors like balance …

instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes and their effects on bank lending growth. The … bank lending. Second, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank …

instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes for bank lending growth. The collective analysis has … three main findings. First, prudential instrument effects sometimes spill over across borders through bank lending. Second …, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank-specific factors like balance …

instruments to study international spillovers of prudential policy changes and their effects on bank lending growth. The … bank lending. Second, international spillovers vary across prudential instruments and are heterogeneous across banks. Bank …