the public, long-term systemic risk among banks tends to increase. From the dynamic perspective, bank penalties represent … long-term. In this respect, bank penalties resemble still waters that run deep. In contrast, a settlement with regulatory …

banks. We find that more competition leads to more risk taking. We also examine the effects of bank competition on the …This paper studies empirically the relationship between competition and risk taking in banking markets. We exploit an … unique dataset providing information about all bank loans to Norwegian firms over several years. Rather than relying on …

competition and stability in banking. There are two basic channels through which competition may increase instability: by … incentives to take risk and raise failure probabilities. The competition-stability trade-off is characterized and the … implications of the analysis for regulation and competition policy are derived. It is found that optimal regulation may depend on …

capital standards, and cost of bank equity determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns …

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 …

, which may have intensified the diabolic loop between sovereign and bank credit risks. By using a novel bank-level dataset …

local credit markets. We provide evidence that marginal increases in interbank competition are detrimental to relationship … technologies are al-ready widely in use in the market by a large group of small mutual banks, an increase in competition may drive …