We examine the roles of bank ownership and CEO political faction membership in facilitating or hindering the … implementation of central bank policy in China. Specifically, we examine the response of China’s commercial banks to People’s Bank of … find that both bank ownership and faction membership matter. Central government-owned banks whose CEOs are members of the …

literature. This paper seeks to study the determinants of bank asset quality and profitability using panel data techniques and … contrary to the general perception. Similarly, with regard to rural bank branches, the results reveal that aversion to rural …

This paper seeks to understand the interplay between banks, bank regulation, sovereign default risk and central bank … guarantees in a monetary union. I assume that banks can use sovereign bonds for repurchase agreements with a common central bank … cheaply, effectively shifting the risk of some of the potential sovereign default losses on the common central bank. …