We develop a dynamic structural model of bank behaviour that provides a microeconomic foundation for bank capital and …

We analyze the effect of bank capital requirements on the structure and risk of a financial system where markets …

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks' stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …

This paper provides the first empirical evidence that bank regulation is associated with cross-border spillover effects … different localities across 16 countries. We find that lower barriers to entry, tighter restrictions on bank activities, and … higher minimum capital requirements in domestic markets are associated with lower bank lending standards abroad. The effects …

Prior to the financial crisis, prudential regulation in the EU was implemented non-uniformly across countries, as … framework were more likely to require public support during the crisis. We instrument some characteristics of bank balance … sheets with these prudential indicators to investigate how they affect bank resilience. The share of non-interest income …

analyzes the implications of the change from IAS 39 to IFRS 9 in the context of bank resilience. We shed light on two effects … bank resilience through lower capital levels. In the absence of archival data of IFRS 9 and their potential biases due to … the COVID-19 pandemic, we use the European bank stress test results as a natural experiment, in which all banks are …