The aim of this paper is to investigate whether banks adopt Environmental, Social, and
Governance (ESG) practices to reduce reputational damage due to financial penalties and …

This paper investigates whether gender-diverse bank boards can play a role in preventing
costly misconduct episodes. We exploit the fines received by European banks from US …

We provide a critical review of the empirical and theoretical literature on bank supervision.
This review focuses on microprudential supervision: the supervision of individual banking …

We examine the relation between geopolitical risk and the cost of bank loans using a
sample of 31,004 loan facilities in the US over the period 1991–2019. We show that …

This study analyses the impact of Spanish financial institutions' risk profile on their
contribution to the 2030 Agenda. Financial institutions play a significant role in ensuring …

This paper extends the literature related to the role of trust on economic activity, focusing on
the influence of trust on lender-borrower relationships and analysing its effect on the interest …

The aggregate Lerner index is a popular composite measure of multi-product banks' market
power, based on total assets as the single aggregate output factor. We show that the …

Purpose Given the competitiveness of the business environment globally, environmental,
social and governance (ESG), which represents a sustainable development framework that …

This study employs bank‐level data covering 3007 individual banks (commercial, savings,
and others) in 27 Asian countries to investigate the determinants of bank liquidity creation …

The COVID-19 pandemic could result in large government interventions in the banking
industry. To shed light on the possible consequences on markups, we rely on the …