The role that banks play in screening and monitoring their borrowers is well understood. However, these bank activities … question – who monitors the monitor? Financial intermediation theories posit that bank capital structure plays such a role in … incentivizing banks to monitor their borrowers. Both bank debt and bank equity have been proposed in various theories as providing …

Political influence on bank credit allocation is often viewed as being necessary to address social problems like income … inequality. We hypothesize that such influence affects bank governance and elicits bank capital responses. Our hypothesis yields … implications for the interaction between politics, household consumption and bank governance and risk through a specific channel …