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 …

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 …

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 …

uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world …, has a high share of women on bank executive boards. Using the news-based EPU index developed by Baker, Bloom, and Davis … significantly under-represented on bank boards in most countries, these results argue for policies to promote gender diversity of …