bank is, the higher are the abnormal returns, both in 'crisis countries' and 'non-crisis countries'. Moreover, abnormal … contrast, abnormal returns are not robustly related to bank risk. These findings reveal market expectations consistent with the …

. Since the establishment of the Banking Union in 2014, the European Central Bank (ECB) can impose stricter regulations than … bank's contribution to systemic risk (SRISK) at the national and the euro-area level. Our research delivers three main …, an exploration of the drivers of systemic risk shows that a bank’s contribution to systemic risk is positively related to …

the proprietary bank-to-bank European interbank dataset extracted from Target2 and also exploit the Lehman and sovereign …

protection selling in CDS, the effect being weaker when sovereign risk is high. Bank and country risk variables are mostly not … building a complete picture and understanding fully the economic drivers of the bank-sovereign nexus of risk. …

Traditional theory suggests that higher bank profitability (or franchise value) dissuades bank risk-taking. We … highlight an opposite effect: higher profitability loosens bank borrowing constraints. This enables profitable banks to take … risk on a larger scale, inducing risk-taking. This effect is more pronounced when bank leverage constraints are looser, or …