This research examines the impacts of Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs) on bank performance in general, and in particular how their impacts can be moderated by bank regulation strictness and investor protection quality embedded in different institutional environments. Using 2398 observations from...

This paper studies the relationship between liquidity demand risk, deposit diversification and insurance in 12 countries during the period 2005-2014. We capture liquidity risk by focusing on the unfunded loan commitments. We find that higher diversification in the deposit base can reduce the...

There has been research that studies Chinese firms’ stakeholder orientation but fails to identify Chinese firms’ specific stakeholder groups. In addition, little research in this line has been conducted so far to reflect recent Chinese constitutional transition. This study seeks to fill...