“…Most of these studies investigated this role in relation to bank capital (e.g. Casu et al, 2019;Fu et al, 2015;Lei and Song, 2013), market liquidity (Chatterjee, 2015;Toh et al, 2018), bank stability (Gupta and Kashiramka, 2020), profitability (Duan and Niu, 2020;Tran et al, 2016), economic output (Berger and Sedunov, 2017;Fidrmuc et al, 2015) and systemic risk (Davydov et al, 2021;Xingmin et al, 2021). IJOEM 17,7…”