The literature wisdom shows that both theoretical and empirical studies provide contradictory predictions about the relationship between market concentration or competiveness and financial stability in the banking system. In the past two decades, the structure of banking industry of many...

We analyse the role of financial development as a buffer to diminish the effect of a cross-border bank flows shock on house prices. From panel vector auto-regressions, we compute impulse-response functions for 38 countries ranked and grouped by financial development. In less financially...

The banking sector is considerably large in China, making scholars and practitioners intuitively believe that China has a bank-based financial system. However, some scholars find that China has a market-based financial system. This study tries to resolve this puzzle. Following the definitions of...

The GFC has affected national banking sectors across the globe. These effects have differed according to many factors, including the degrees of openness in real and financial sectors, maturity of financial intermediation, and fiscal and monetary policy responses. One very interesting case is the...

Financial institutions constitute an increasingly important cornerstone of capital markets, yet research at the intersection of asset management contracts and asset pricing remains sparse. In this paper, I study how externalities of managerial contracts affect asset prices in the context of...

We investigate liquidity shocks and shocks to fundamentals during financial crises at commercial banks, investment banks, and hedge funds. Liquidity shock amplification models assume that widespread funding problems cause fire sales. We find that most banks do not experience funding declines...