estimated while controlling for the macroeconomic environment. An increase in bank' balance sheet risk is shown to increase the …

financial institutions. In this paper, we put the joint response of euro area bank and sovereign CDS premia under the microscope …. We find that the bank rescue packages led to a clear structural break in these premia's comovement, which had been rather … to any further aggravation of the crisis. At the same time, the sensitivity of bank credit risk premia declined and …

This paper addresses the trade-off between additional loss-absorbing capacity and potentially higher bank risk …

Loan guarantees represent a form of government intervention to support bank lending. However, their use raises concerns … as to their effect on bank risk-taking incentives. In a model of •nancial fragility that incorporates bank capital and a … bank incentive problem, we show that loan guarantees reduce depositor runs and improve bank underwriting standards, except …

highlight weak macro-economic conditions, lax bank supervision and individual bank weakness as the key factors …

The paper proposes a framework for assessing the impact of system-wide and bank-level capital buffers. The assessment … rests on a factor-augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) model that relates individual bank adjustments to macroeconomic … related to an increase in bank resilience to adverse shocks. Higher capitalisation allows banks to withstand negative shocks …