The papers included in this issue are selected from the 7th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) organized by Strathclyde Business School during 1-3 June 2017. With circa 200 academics, practitioners and regulators participating as delegates from...

In this paper, we analyze whether regulation reduced risk during the credit crisis and the sovereign debt crisis for a cross section of global banks. In this regard, we examine distance to default (Laeven and Levine, 2008), systemic risk (Acharya et al., 2010), idiosyncratic risk, and systematic...

We investigate how a change in regulatory oversight affects bank risk. Using the passage of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act of 2018 as a setting, and a sample of bank holding companies (BHCs) over the period 2015Q1 through 2020Q1, we find that risk increases...