We develop a model of bank risk-taking with strategic sovereign default risk. Domestic banks invest in real projects … their default risks through purchases of bonds. But, for high debt levels, this influence is lost since bank and government …

, depositors, and regulators in connection with bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions … potential endogeneity which are usually inherent to research into the real economic implications of bank regulation. We find a … dependent on bank financing. Our findings are robust to various specifications. Investigating the transmission channels of the …

bank (G-SIB) envisaged by regulators has an impact on the CDS prices of these banks. We find evidence that the CDS spreads … of a G-SIB bank increase (decrease) after the announcement of a higher (lower) capital surcharge. However, this effect is … contributes to the debate on whether being designated as a G-SIB bank necessarily leads to implicit "too-big-to-fail" subsidies …

German banks' ownership structure, heterogeneity in the states' fiscal strength and detailed bank-level panel data on German … banks' state bond portfolio on the security- and bank-level for the time period Q4:2005-Q2:2014. Results show that home …

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 …

competition. Here, we employ a novel approach to account for IRS that are both unexpected and effective for a bank’s business … theory that monopolistic firms undersupply the market when utilizing their high pricing power in the bank competition …–liquidity creation nexus. While positive IRS per se lead to an increase in bank liquidity creation, we find that a high bank …

characterizes the size and sign of its fiscal footprint, as well as the states of the world in which the temptation for fiscal goals …

banks with foreign affiliates for the years 2002-2011, we study bank internationalization before and during the crisis. Our …