This paper analyzes the determinants of spreads on syndicated bank lending to emerging markets, treating the loan … interpretation of bank finance as dominating that segment of international financial markets characterized by the most pronounced …

We study a unique experiment to examine the importance of rating agencies' private information for bank shareholders …. On July 20, 2011, Fitch Ratings refined their bank standalone ratings, which measure intrinsic financial strength, from a … standalone rating refinement was cleanly limited to bank shareholders. We find evidence suggesting that the refinement resulted …

market. When supported banks' investment strategy differed materially from that of the average bank it was in holding less …

financial crisis of the 20th century - the Great Depression. Using balance-sheet and systemic risk measures at the bank level …, we build an econometric model with incidental truncation that jointly considers bank survival, the type of bank closure … (consolidations, absorption, and failures), and changes to bank risk. Despite roughly 9,000 bank closures, risk did not leave the …

locations of large-bank branches have demographics typically associated with greater financial sophistication, large-bank …

widespread stress, with adverse affects on bank intermediation thereafter. We discuss the bank capital and the bank funding … conclude by discussing the increasing extension of bank credit lines to non-bank financial intermediaries, as well as the role …