Australia has a mandatory superannuation scheme for all employees, where employer deducts 9% of the employees’ wages and contributes to the designated super fund. Momentum strategies suggest investors look at the past returns and move their investments into the assets that have performed...

Does the early-career exposure of bank CEOs to the 1980s savings and loans (S&L) crisis affact the outcomes of banks they subsequently managed? We measure the S&L crisis exposure by the bank failure rate in the states where CEOs worked during the S&L crisis. Armed with this measure, we find that...

We empirically examine the cash flow statements for Japanese banks and whether their managers engage in classification shifting to temper concerns about risk exposure. To create a buffer against liquidity shocks, they shift cash flows from investing and/or financing activities to operating...

This study focuses on physical and R&D investments to examine the effect of bank shocks on corporate investment behavior at the firm and economy levels. I use matched bank-firm lending data for listed Japanese companies from 1990 to 2013 to identify bank loan supply shocks from firms' borrowing...

This paper investigates how banks’ loan pricing responds to the environmental performance of borrowing companies. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of bank loans in China, we find that banks reward borrowers that have higher environmental responsibility scores with lower loan interest...