We examine how option compensation affects banks' risky mortgage origination and sale decisions before the financial crisis in 2008. We find that, in the period immediately before the financial crisis, option compensation has little impact on the riskiness of mortgages originated and is...

We examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on bank liquidity hoarding. We create a comprehensive measure of bank liquidity hoarding that takes into account asset-, liability-, and off-balance sheet activities. Using over one million bank-quarter observations, we find that in...

This article applies the quantile regression forest (QRF), which is an improved method for predicting future monetary policy and macroeconomic downside risks in China. The information used to forecast is derived from Chinese systemic risk. We construct two Chinese systemic risk information sets,...