This paper examines the impact of financial sector policy announcements on bank stocks
around the world during the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. Overall, we find that liquidity …

The Covid-19 crisis is unique in several respects. This devastating recession does not have
an economic origin, will dance largely to the tune of non-economic factors, and is truly …

The pandemic COVID-19 has severely affected the global economy. The strict lockdown
measures have also changed the daily live, including consumer behavior in retail banking …

This paper introduces a new global database and a policy classification framework that
records the financial sector policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic across 155 …

This study empirically explores the effects of bank funding diversity on Vietnamese
commercial banks' profitability and risk in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The panel …

This paper examines how European banks adjusted their lending subsequent to the release
of the countercyclical capital buffers (CCyB) during the COVID-19 pandemic. At its onset in …

Banks with a low price-to-book ratio have a greater propensity to pay out dividends. This
propensity is especially marked for banks with a price-to-book ratio below a threshold of 0.7 …

The broad economic damage of the COVID-19 pandemic poses the first major test of the
bank regulatory reforms put in place after the Global Financial Crisis. Our study assesses the …

Purpose Using cross-country data on the 1,000 largest global banks for 2019, the paper
aims to examine the response of bank risk and returns to the pandemic …

Over the last decade, banking sector stability has received much attention as Basel III
implementations take shape in response to the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Since said …