Studying Corporate Environmental, Social and Governance responsibility (ESG) and its consequences remain a topical concern of the company's stakeholders including governmental and non-governmental organizations, investors and researchers over the past few decades. While most research has studied...

This paper documents that standard cross-sectional determinants of firm leverage also apply to the capital structure of large banks in the United States and Europe. We find a remarkable consistency in sign, significance and economic magnitude. Like non-financial firms, banks appear to have...