This paper documents large cross-country variation in the relationship between bank competition and bank stability and …

This paper documents large cross-country variation in the relationship between bank competition and bank stability and …

predominantly by macroeconomic conditions and the strength of the sovereign and their institutional relationship with other ‘bank …

We use the German Crisis of 1931, a key event of the Great Depression, to study how depositors behave during a bank run …

lead to excessive risk-taking. We examine the relation between deposit insurance and bank risk and systemic fragility in … the years leading up to and during the recent financial crisis. We find that generous financial safety nets increase bank … risk and systemic fragility in the years leading up to the global financial crisis. However, during the crisis, bank risk …

be detrimental to bank stability, the more so where bank interest rates are deregulated and the institutional environment … is weak. Also, the adverse impact of deposit insurance on bank stability tends to be stronger when the coverage offered …

anticipation of this bailout undermines a bank's private incentive to impose a bail-in. In the resulting equilibrium, bail-ins are …