The role that banks play in screening and monitoring their borrowers is well understood. However, these bank activities … question – who monitors the monitor? Financial intermediation theories posit that bank capital structure plays such a role in … incentivizing banks to monitor their borrowers. Both bank debt and bank equity have been proposed in various theories as providing …

This paper looks into the specific influence that the European banking union will have on (future) bank client …

This paper looks into the specific influence that the European banking union will have on (future) bank client …

Can a major financial crisis trigger changes in a bank's risk-taking behavior? Using the 2008 Global Financial Crisis … such, bank learning from a financial crisis may not depend on the institutional context and the level of development of …

bank issues covered bonds backed by a pool of assets that is bankruptcy remote and replenished following losses …. Encumbering assets allows a bank to raise cheap secured debt and expand profitable investment, but it also concentrates risk on …

This paper compares the stability of the U.S. Dual Banking system's two bank groups, national and state banks, in light … question asks to whether or not the respective regulatory agencies of both bank groups are responsible for these changes in … liquidity-related problems than the FDIC. The paper is the first of its kind to analyze bank fragility around the escalation of …

because it reflects special liquidity benefits of bank debt. Even aside from neglecting the systemic damage to the economy …