Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression, there is … significant variation in the cross-section of stock returns of large banks across the world during that period. We use this …, except that large banks from countries with more restrictions on bank activities performed better and decreased loans less …

study examining the effect of the pandemic on bank systemic risk. We find the pandemic increases systemic risk across … countries. The effect operates through government policy and bank default risk channels. Additional analysis suggests that the …-to-asset, undercapitalized, and low network centrality banks. However, this effect is moderated by formal bank regulation (e.g., deposit …

. These events include financial crises, phenomenal incidents that shock the economic world and pose significant challenges …

Sectoral loan concentration is an important factor in bank performance. We develop a measure of sectoral loan … concentration and study how community bank performance and the size-performance relationship vary with loan concentration and … significantly associated with risk of bank failure or acquisition. Results for changes in concentration appear to be driven by the …

We analyze the effect of bank capital, regulation and deposit insurance on the global systemic risk of international … results show that bank size and interconnectedness are positively related and competition is negatively related to global … financial fragility. In contrast, we find no convincing evidence that a bank's supervisory environment or non-interest income …