This paper examines the consequences of Chinese regulators deviating from a long-standing full bailout policy in … addressing the distress of a city-level commercial bank. This policy shift led to a persistent widening of credit spreads and a …

Regulators increasingly rely on supervisory technologies (SupTech) to enhance bank supervision, but their potential … role in disciplining bank behavior remains unclear. We address this knowledge gap using unique data from the SupTech … application of the Central Bank of Brazil. We show that, after a SupTech event, banks reveal inconsistencies in their risk …

the interest income of a hypothetical profit-maximis-ing Chinese bank with no credit quality problems. Taking the … Chi-nese banks. Our results uncover a substantial weakening in the quality of Chinese bank loan portfo-lios in 2016. Big …

Can a major financial crisis trigger changes in a bank's risk-taking behavior? Using the 2008 Global Financial Crisis … such, bank learning from a financial crisis may not depend on the institutional context and the level of development of …

We investigate the relationship of central bank independence and banks' systemic risk measures. Our results support the … case for central bank independence, revealing that central bank independence has a robust, negative, and significant impact … on the contribution and exposure of a bank to systemic risk. Moreover, the impact of central bank independence is similar …

Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG … bank monitoring and scrutiny. The Social and Governance components, in particular, matter. Furthermore, firms suffering … higher numbers of negative ESG reputation shocks are less likely to continue to rely on bank credit in response to lenders …