The anticipation of a future bailout of distressed firms worsens ex ante adverse selection, causing a market freeze at present and inviting government intervention ("bailout trap"). When firms of heterogenous qualities raise financing, high-quality firms are willing to bear adverse selection...

Upon assuming control of Baoshang Bank, Chinese bank regulators announced that they would eschew bailing out large creditors of this city-level distressed bank in full. This paper investigates the consequences of this unexpected deviation from the long-standing full bailout policy. Employing a...

We examine the effect of regional favoritism on firms’ access to credit. Using firm-level data on a large sample of 29,000 firms covering 48 countries, we investigate the hypothesis that access to credit of firms is higher in the birth regions of national political leaders. We find evidence...

We evaluate the impact of loan-to-value restrictions on household financial vulnerability. Using Norwegian tax data, we first document a beneficial leverage effect, in which households respond to the regulation by reducing house purchase probabilities, debt and interest expenses. Second, we...

What is the impact of granular credit risk on banks and on the economy? We provide the first causal identification of single-name counterparty exposure risk in bank portfolios by applying a new empirical approach on an administrative matched bank-firm dataset from Norway. Exploiting the fat...

Die Schweizerische Nationalbank organisiert abwechselnd mit der polnischen Nationalbank (NBP) das NBP-SNB Joint Seminar. Seit dem Beginn im Jahr 2004 hat dieses Seminar Zentralbankerinnen und Zentralbanker aus Zentralasien, Zentral- und Osteuropa sowie Akademikerinnen und Akademiker für...

Die Frage der Geschlechtergerechtigkeit beschäftigt zunehmend auch die noch stark traditionell geprägte Finanzbranche. In der gemeinsamen Vortragsveranstaltung von CFS und IBF nehmen Dieter Ziegler und Claudia Rasper die historische und die aktuelle Entwicklung in den Blick und geben damit...

This paper studies how banks compete amid digital disruption and the resulting distributional effect across consumers. Digital disruption increases the geographic coverage of banking services, bringing new entrants to local markets. However, as digital customers shift from branches to digital...

Papers can be on any topic in Economics, Finance, or Management Science as related to risk and insurance.

Using an international panel of banks, we study whether banks’ capitalization and risk-taking are shaped by their prior economic experience. We find that, on average, bank’s past undercapitalization experience leads to more prudent lending and higher capitalization. However, we show that...