In recent years, many have argued for a greater orientation of companies toward defending the interests of their various stakeholders, and many firms have proclaimed their adherence to stakeholder capitalism. However, there is not a single measure that can objectively quantify and evaluate the...

Drawing on recently disclosed information on the Pillar 2 capital requirements of banks directly supervised by the ECB, we find that bank-specific capital requirements are mostly driven by business model and profitability, credit risk, and internal governance and risk management issues....

We assess the impact of adopting a transnational supervisor on the distance-to-distress and credit risk of large and complex banks, exploring the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) in 2014 as a quasi-natural experiment. Using a differences-in-differences approach, we compare...