Despite repeated calls for fintech regulations, the impact of looming fintech regulations is still unclear. This paper uses the event of uniformly implementing registration requirements in Chinese peer-to-peer (P2P) industry to answer this question. The results show that, even though the...

This paper develops and calibrates a structural model of contingent capital. The model can be calibrated to specific institutions and used to provide quantitative guidance on important practical issues. For instance this paper appears to be the first to consider the problem of empirically...

This study explores whether and how bank characteristics affect general risk-taking and tail risk of Too-Big-to-Fail (TBTF) and non-TBTF banks differently. We show that TBTF banks’ investment decisions drive their risks, while sources of funding drive risks of other banks. Contradicting the...

To avoid illiquidity spillovers and basis risk in swaps, interbank lenders are especially cautious about whether interbank borrowers can meet their claims. This paper is about examining whether the incentive of interbank lenders to penalize risky borrowers can reduce the liquidity risk-taking of...

This paper is about investigating how different bank liquidity creation activities affect housing markets. Using data of 401 metropolitan statistical areas/divisions (MSAs/MSADs) of the US between 1990 and 2018, we show that not all bank liquidity creation activities boost housing markets. In...

Using land transaction data in China, we investigate whether and how political connections penetrate through headquarter-subsidiary relationships. The results show that even though the headquarters of politically connected listed firms pay comparable land prices as other firms, their...

This paper examines the impact of customer concentration on green innovation in Chinese listed firms between 2006 and 2018 through the dynamic panel generalized method of moments regressions. It is reported that major customers positively impact corporate green innovation, indicating that firms...