Financial regulation is the basic requirement for financial stability. Recently, regulatory
technology (Reg-Tech) has become one of the main research topics in financial stability …

Abstract Since the Great Recession, government regulators have become more interested
than ever in the significant increase of bank size in the US financial sector. We contribute to …

We find a positive and significant relation between forecasted idiosyncratic volatility and
returns in a large international database covering 57 countries with over three million …

This paper studies a newly compiled data set of annual balance sheets of more than 11,000
commercial banks across 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data allow us to …

This paper analyzes the effects of bank capital regulation on the link between bank size and
volatility. Using bank-level data for 27 advanced economies over the 2000–2014 period, we …

Banking-system shutdowns during contractions scar economies. Four times in the last forty
years, governors suspended payments from state-insured depository institutions …

A set of data with positive values follows a Pareto distribution if the log–log plot of value
versus rank is approximately a straight line. A Pareto distribution satisfies Zipf's law if the log …

We find a positive and significant relation between forecasted idiosyncratic volatility and
returns in a large international database covering 57 countries with over three million firm …

Bank asset concentration has risen in the US since the 1980s and declined in Europe since
2008. We decompose this rise and fall of big banks using rank-based empirical methods that …

This thesis comprises three independent essays evaluating the impact of different regulatory
policies on bank risk and/or financial stability. First, we examine the effects of capital …