"Central bankers and financial supervisors can have conflicting goals. While monetary policymakers work to ensure sufficient lending activities as a foundation for high and stable economic growth, supervisors may limit banks' lending capacities in order to prevent excessive risk taking. We show...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the changes in B-share discounts across 76 Chinese stocks around an important regulatory event to understand the importance of political risk in pricing stocks in emerging markets. Design/methodology/approach – On February 19, 2001, the...