Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since at least the Great Depression … performance of banks during the credit crisis. More specifically, we investigate whether bank performance is related to bank …-level governance, country-level governance, country-level regulation, and bank balance sheet and profitability characteristics before …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression, there is …, except that large banks from countries with more restrictions on bank activities performed better and decreased loans less …. Our evidence poses a substantial challenge to those who argue that poor bank governance was a major cause of the crisis …

This paper evaluates the effects of government bailout policies on bank performance in the EU banking sector. Using a …

We investigate whether a bank’s performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank’s poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …

banks and find no evidence that this shift in the bank business model harms bank profitability. To the contrary, a higher … share of non-traditional bank income is associated with a higher profitability. The increase in profitability does not seem … to come at the cost of substantially larger bank-level risk taking, at least not for large banks, which are the banks …

the financial crisis 2008-09 was significantly higher for firms with a "weak" bank than for comparable firms with a "sound …" bank. Second, non-defaulting firms with a "weak" bank did not have a lower return on assets during the financial crisis … 2008-09 than comparable firms with a "sound" bank. Taken together, these results may indicate the presence of heterogeneous …

negatively associated with bank profits. Our results also suggest that multinational banks, possessing global advantage, are more …-owned and domestic banks may be due to the implementation of bank restructuring programmes and governments' financial support …