The topic of bank default risk in connection with government bailouts has recently attracted a great deal of attention. In this paper, the question of how a bank’s default risk is affected by a distress acquisition is investigated. Specifically, the government provides a bailout program of...

The Chinese stock market crash in June 2015 has demonstrated necessary to improve understanding of systemic risk from the perspective of financial network. This study constructs a tail risk network to present overall systemic risk of Chinese financial institutions, given the macroeconomic and...

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...