employed to examine the impact of bank and macroeconomic variables on the total factor productivity of MENA commercial banks …

To help curtail future sovereign exposures to banking losses, the European Union introduced the Bank Resolution and … Recovery Directive, which mandates bail-in of creditors in the event of significant bank losses. In this paper, we examine the …. Significant differences in risk and funding characteristics are apparent between domestic and cross-border European bank …

driven by the increase in deposit demand before or after the bank SEO and are robust with alternative placebo-matched samples …. Our findings point to risk-taking by banks and highlight the importance of bank regulation on bank size …

the level of bank competition. This effect holds for various complaint types, market types, market demographics, and …

conditional distribution of bank welfare performance rather than just the conditional mean effect of cost efficiency …

Litigation against a bank is indicative of misconduct risk because it suggests a failure to process customer complaints … based on a panel of complaints submitted to the Italian Ombudsman. We find that bank profits and financial health are strong … determinants of potential and actual illegal behaviour, respectively. We control for the level of bank-client contentiousness at …

We show that negative policy rates affect the supply of bank credit in a novel way. Banks are reluctant to pass on … low-deposit banks. As a consequence, the introduction of negative policy rates by the European Central Bank in mid-2014 …

We examine the effects of CEO turnover in banks. Incoming bank CEOs face problems from information asymmetry because … banks' operations are opaque and bank risk can change dramatically in a short time. Incoming bank CEOs may therefore change … bank policies to manage their personal risks. Since CEO turnover is usually endogenous, we utilize a setting where CEO …

We find that bank liquidity creation (LC) is statistically and economically significantly positively related to real … economic output (GDP). This is robust to using instrumental variables and many robustness checks. LC also beats bank assets in … bank LC generates more GDP per dollar than large bank LC, but large bank LC matters more overall because large banks …

This paper investigates whether monitoring by bank lenders affects CEO incentives of borrowing firms. We find that an … increase in bank monitoring incentives significantly reduce the sensitivity of CEO wealth to stock return volatility (Vega …). The results are more profound when bank lenders are more powerful and reputable and have a prior lending relationship with …