“…Our dataset contains weekly market returns for four large commercial banks: Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and Wells Fargo (WFC). The entire period is from the first week of 1971 to the end of June 2013, which has been partly studied in Xu et al (2020) and Adrian and Brunnermeier (2016). The sample sizes for the four banks are 1771, 1386, 2210, and 2210, respectively, and we consider seven macro-economic variables as predictors/covariates: 1. x 1 : The weekly market return of S&P500; 2. x 2 : The change in the three-month yield from the Federal Reserve Board's H.15 release; 3. x 3 : Equity volatility, which is computed as the 22-day rolling standard deviation of the daily CRSP equity market return; 4. x 4 : The change in the credit spread between Baa bonds (rated by Moody's) and the ten-year Treasury rate from the Federal Reserve Board's H.15 release; 5. x 5 : The change in the slope of the yield curve, measured by the spread between the composite long-term bond yield and the three-month bill rate; 6. x 6 : A short-term TED spread, defined as the difference between the three-month LIBOR rate and the three-month secondary market treasury bill rate.…”