affects banks' profitability using panel data of a sample of 567 banks, mainly from Organisation for Economic Cooperation and … banks' profitability, whereas higher levels of the institutional environment or stricter banking regulation reduces banks …' profitability. The negative effect of the institutional environment and banking regulation was of lower magnitude during the global …

requirements, using financial data of the Swiss systemically important bank UBS. It can be shown that the leverage ratio …

This paper studies the country-level reaction of bank credit default swap (“CDS”) spreads and stock prices to bailout … announcements in the US and five European countries in October 2008. Bailouts announcements are associated with bank CDS spreads … narrowing, both for domestic and foreign banks, pointing to an important role for cross-border exposures. Movements in bank …

We study the impact of higher bank capital buffers, namely of the Other Systemically Important Institu- tions (O …

crisis. These policies are often aimed at the commercial banking sector, while a host of other non-bank financial … institutions, or shadow banks, may not fall under their jurisdiction. We study the effects of tightening commercial bank regulation … tighter capital requirements on commercial banks increase shadow bank lending, which may have adverse financial stability …

significant even after controlling for bank specific variables. Moreover, larger banks have less intermediation ratio which …