Syndicated lending is a widely practiced alternative to traditional bilateral lending and within Europe the syndicated loan market increased significantly during the 2000s. Using a dataset consisting of 4166 European banks, the authors examine the factors that determine the bank's willingness to...

We assess the effect of securitization activity on banks' loan pricing practices employing a uniquely detailed dataset from the euro-denominated syndicated loan market. We find that in the run up to the 2007-2009 crisis banks that were more active at originating asset-backed securities did not...

We exploit the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how risk relates to bank business models. Institutions with higher risk exposure had less capital, larger size, greater reliance on short-term market funding, and aggressive credit growth. Business models related to significantly reduced bank...

Spain is particularly illustrative of the 2007-2010 financial crisis as it exemplifies in a vivid manner most of its core causes. This country experienced a pronounced housing bubble partly funded via spectacular expansion on its securitization markets leading to looser credit standards and...

We exploit the 2007-2009 financial crisis to analyze how risk relates to bank business models. Institutions with higher risk exposure had less capital, larger size, greater reliance on short-term market funding, and aggressive credit growth. Business models related to significantly reduced bank...

We analyze the determinants of bank risk during the recent financial crisis for a large international panel of listed institutions. With a comprehensive dataset manually assembled from a variety of sources, we relate several measures of ex-post banks' distress – including the likelihood of a...

In the years preceding the 2007-2009 financial crisis, forward-looking indicators of bank risk concentrated and suggested unusually low expectations of bank default. We assess whether the ex-ante (i.e. prior to the crisis) cross-sectional variability in bank characteristics is related to the...

Syndicated lending is a widely practiced alternative to traditional bilateral lending and within Europe the syndicated loan market increased significantly during the 2000s. Using a dataset consisting of 4,166 European banks, the authors examine the factors that determine the bank's willingness...

We compare the experience of Latin American external debt crises, in particular the one in the 80s, with the current European one. We do so with the aim of shedding some light on the needed adjustment mechanisms. We argue for the need of much larger debt relief in Europe. To address the moral...

There is an ongoing debate about austerity and stimulus in the Euro zone. Moreover, given the fiscal and financial problems in the region, a default has appeared likely at times. In this context, this paper develops a dynamic stochastic quantitative model of sovereign default with fiscal policy,...