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Regulators increasingly rely on supervisory technologies (SupTech) to enhance bank supervision, but their potential role in disciplining bank behavior remains unclear. We address this knowledge gap using unique data from ...

This paper examines the consequences of Chinese regulators deviating from a long-standing full bailout policy in addressing the distress of a city-level commercial bank. This policy shift led to a persistent widening of ...

Countries choose diverse policy mixes of macroprudential and capital flow management measures, yet the drivers behind these policy choices remain largely unexplored. We identify potential conditions for the adoption and ...

We study how terminated correspondent banking relationships affect international trade. Drawing on firm-level export data from emerging Europe, we show that when local banks lose access to correspondent services, their ...

Banks are multidivisional organizations in which branches hold local knowledge about borrowers. Can this “soft” information be transmitted across units? Studying the population of corporate loans originated by a large ...

A unique natural experiment in China – the city-level staggered introduction of administrative approval centers (AAC) – reduces bank loan processing times by substantially speeding up the process of registering collateral ...