We study the impact of China’s 2013 implementation of Basel III on bank risk-taking and its responses to monetary policy shocks using confidential loan-level data from a large Chinese bank. Guided by theory, we use a difference-in-difference identification, exploiting cross-sectional...

We study the impact of China's 2013 implementation of Basel III on bank risk-taking and its responses to monetary policy shocks using confidential loan-level data from a large Chinese bank. Guided by theory, we use a difference-in-difference identification, exploiting cross-sectional differences...

We present evidence that tightened bank capital requirements after China implemented the Basel III capital regulations in 2013 have reduced bank risk-taking following expansionary monetary policy shocks. Under the new regulations, a bank can boost its effective capital adequacy ratio (CAR) by...

This paper systematically analyzes the impact of monetary policy on non-financial enterprises' leverage differentiation under bank credit discrimination, taking advantage of data provided by non-financial listed companies from 2007 to 2017. The results show that bank credit discrimination will...