Competition and Bank Risk the Role of Securitization and Bank Capital /

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Altunbas, Yener
Other Authors: Marques-Ibanez, David, van Leuvensteijn, Michiel, Zhao, Tianshu
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/140
Online Access:Full text available on IMF