thumb are proposed for the behavior of banks’ capital ratios and key drivers thereof—primarily credit losses, income, credit …

. Using data from the syndicated loan market, we exploit variation in banks’ reliance on wholesale funding and their … bank credit. We find that banks with strong balance sheets were better able to maintain lending during the crisis. In … particular, banks that were ex-ante more dependent on market funding and had lower structural liquidity reduced the supply of …

vector autoregressive method that controls for bank-level characteristics. Using a panel of banks over 1993-2010, the authors … reports that a larger market share of foreign banks in the industry improves loan quality. …

Better “financial soundness†of banks could help mitigate the volatility of financial cycles by reducing banks⠅

central counterparties’ risk buffers, in line with recent enhancements to the capital regime for banks. …

market discipline, but asymmetry information may induce exaggerated or distortionary behavior: banks may vie with one another … among them - tendencies that can be seen across banks and across time. Prudential policy is warranted to help offset these …

on the internal ratings of U.S. banks on loans to businesses over the period 1997 to 2011 from the Federal Reserve …’s survey of terms of business lending. We find that ex-ante risk taking by banks (as measured by the risk rating of the bank’s … pronounced for banks with relatively low capital or during periods when banks’ capital erodes, such as episodes of financial and …