The Capital Purchase Plan (CPP) is one of the main ingredients of the Paulson Plan. In accordance with CPP, U.S. federal agencies invested more than $200 billion in approximately 700 financial institutions between 2008 and 2009. This article examines whether this major public intervention helped...

We examine the effect of the introduction of the euro on the level of systemic risk for countries that adopted the common currency (euro-zone countries). Our measure of systemic risk is ∆CoVaR, introduced by Adrian and Brunnermeier (2010). We analyze the 1990-2010 period, use a large...

Purpose This paper examines how the determinants of bank performance and profitability were affected by the recent systemic banking crisis. We explore the contemporaneous determinants of U.S. regional banks’ performance and profitability before, during, and after the crisis years....