2001 through 2011 and find the standard capital ratio to be a significantly better predictor of bank performance than the …

of bank relationships and their banks' participation in government capital support programs. We find that government … pronounced for riskier and bank-dependent firms and those that borrow from banks that are less capitalized and smaller. Our study …

-prone securities from the financial system. By contrast, current regulation guarantees run-prone bank liabilities and instead tries to … regulate bank assets and their values. I survey how a much simpler, rule-based, liability regulation could eliminate runs and …

We investigate the effects of countercyclical prudential buffers on bank risk-taking. We exploit the introduction of …

corporate governance and regulations on bank risk-taking behaviour. We found sufficient evidence that corporate governance … mechanism has strong effect on the level of risk taken by bank: bank with large owner(s) is associated with higher risk …-taking, while board size is found to be negatively related to bank risk level, indicating that the bigger the size of the board, the …

This article evaluates whether US large bank operational risk capital requirements are forward-looking, sensitive to …