In this paper, we develop a contingent claim model to evaluate a bank’s equity and liabilities that integrates the premature default risk conditions with loan rate-setting behavioral mode and multiple shadow banking activities under capital regulation. The barrier options theory of corporate...

In this paper, we develop a contingent claim model to examine the optimal bank interest margin, i.e., the spread between the domestic loan rate and the deposit market rate of an international bank in distress. The framework is used to evaluate the cross-border lending efficiency for a bank that...

We develop a new methodology that goes all-in machine learning to identify FinTech innovation, and, in turn, to construct a bank-specific proxy of such innovation in China. Since China stringently separates commercial (traditional) and investment banking services, this allows us to study the...