We use data on 1,294 banks in Central and Eastern Europe to analyze how bank ownership and creditor coordination in the …

supply factors, both for the whole 1993-2010 period and during periods of financial instability. Using bank-level panel data …

This paper analyzes the evolution of bank funding structures in the run up to the global financial crisis and studies … the implications for financial stability, exploiting a bank-level dataset that covers about 11,000 banks in the U.S. and …-crisis period were more likely to fail afterward. The likelihood of bank failure also increases with bank risk-taking. In the cross …

bank tax, and the U.S. administration has revived its own proposal for such a charge. This paper considers the structure … for taxing bank borrowing, perhaps as an adjunct to minimum capital requirements, at marginal rates that rise quite … higher than those of the bank taxes so far adopted or proposed …

Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies … and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in … particular the more bank-based economies of continental Europe). Further, stronger recoveries also tend to be associated with …