This paper empirically explores the monitoring behavior of banks. We are able to infer bank monitoring activity by observing changes in internally-generated risk metrics for corporate credits. We use these measures of monitoring activity to better understand the bank monitoring motives and...

We investigate the U.S. experience with macroprudential policies by studying the interagency guidance on leveraged lending. We find that the guidance primarily impacted large, closely supervised banks, but only after supervisors issued important clarifications. It also triggered a migration of...