This paper examines how bank culture helps to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on banks’ default risk. Using 2,667 quarterly earnings call transcripts for a sample of 161 US Bank Holding Companies, we find that a stronger bank culture reduces banks’ default risk following COVID-19 shock. In...

We examine the effect of climate change risks (CCR) on firms' decision of engaging in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Using two-stage residual inclusion estimation for 1,118 deals of listed US firms during 2010-2020 and consistent with risk vulnerability theory, our evidence indicates that firms...

We analyze the impact of macroeconomic-industrial and bank-specific factors on Latin American banks' performance. For that purpose, we use a data panel system estimator version of the generalized method of moments to estimate the determinants of return on assets and interest margin for a sample...

Passive index investing involves the low cost strategy of investing in a fund that replicates or, more often, tracks a market index. Enhanced indexation uses the returns of an index as a reference point and aims at outperforming this index. The intuition behind enhanced indexing is that market...

This paper examines the link between bank liquidity and exposure to industry-level shocks. Using a unique dataset of borrower industry affiliations, we propose a new measure of industry-level shocks calculated at bank-level. First, we construct bank-specific loan portfolio weights for each...