We study the development of bank lending in the U.S. after four large jumps in uncertainty using an event study approach. We find that more liquid banks reduce lending less than banks with smaller liquidity ratios after a surge in uncertainty. Lending by smaller banks is also less responsive to...

This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between money market uncertainty and unexpected deviations in retail interest rates in a sample of 10 OECD countries. We find that, with the exception of the US, money market uncertainty has only a modest impact on the conditional volatility of...

Using three alternative decompositions of the credit default swap premium this study examines how investors judge the credit risk of banks and non-banks before, during, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The empirical findings, based on a sample of 213 major US and European firms,...