measures of profitability in the sector. They were indicating that the accumulation of assets eats into the incomes of banks in …

We examine the relation between banks' corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance in a context of … the recent financial crisis. We find that banks, in general, appear to be rewarded for being socially responsible as … financial performance is positively and significantly related to CSR scores. We find that the biggest banks pursue socially …

We identify three business models using balance sheet characteristics of 222 international banks and a data …

banks. This paper proposes a novel taxonomy to identify and track business model evolution for the 30 Global Systemically … Important Banks (G-SIBs). Drawing from banks' reporting, it identifies strategies along four dimensions-consolidated lines of …

-level dataset of Brazilian banks. Our results suggest that internal liquidity management increases during times of financial stress …. Privately owned banks are most affected by a liquidity shock, and increase the level of internal funding to maintain their … branch lending, while their government-owned competitors react strategically. Private and government banks increase the …

We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We … exploit two shocks to Italian banks' CDS spreads and equity valuations: the 2007Ð 2009 financial crisis and the 2010Ð2012 … sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over 3,000, mostly privately held, non-financial firms to their bank(s …