How do near-zero interest rates affect bank competition, risk taking and regulation? I study these questions in a … insurance may induce excessive risk taking. The zero lower bound on deposit rates (ZLB) distorts bank competition and boosts …

This paper revisits the credit spread puzzle in bank CDS spreads from the perspective of information contagion. The … models to account for information spillovers based on bank business model similarities. To capture this channel, we propose … Eurozone. Incorporating the network information into the structural model for bank credit spreads increases explanatory power …

separating equilibrium with no limit pricing; thelow-cost incumbent repays more to the bank in the first period, due to the … threat of entry; andthere are parameter values for which the bank makes more profits with the threat of entry thanwithout. …