bank-level can impact aggregate volatility. We find weak evidence for a link between granular banking sector volatility and …

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … spur growth in cross-border bank mergers. Also, mergers tend to be less frequent if information costs are high. …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … for public finances. Regimes for the restructuring and resolution of banks, financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops …, seek to reduce these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and to increase the costs of leverage. This …

bank lending. We are using a dataset on assets and liabilities of commercial banks from five countries (France, Germany …

affects bank lending depends on the whether the banks are drawing on official sector liquidity facilities. Third, liquidity … heterogeneity in the balance sheet characteristics that affect banks’ responses to liquidity risk. Overall, bank balance sheet …