uncertainty. This proposition is tested using a panel of Ukrainian banks collected from NBU and covering the period 2003q1-2005q3 …. The results indicate that banks increase their lending ratios when macroeconomic uncertainty decreases. We demonstrate … that our results are robust with respect to the measurement of macroeconomic uncertainty. The reaction of banks to changes …

differences in financial factors, which may reflect differences in country risk and the legal and regulatory framework that banks …

significant differences between the investors which are linked to banks and those financiers which are not. Although, the …

We put forward a modern version of the 'developmental' view of government-owned banks which shows that the combination … of information asymmetries and weak institutions creates scope for such banks to play a growth-promoting role. We present …-2007 government ownership of banks has been robustly associated with higher long run growth rates. Moreover, we show that previous …

banks has risen sharply, especially among banks in the euro area. Our results suggest that expansionary monetary policy in … the source countries – as measured by the change in reserves held at central banks - has encouraged cross-border lending …

This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001 – 2012 to examine the main …,signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the business cycle). The results suggest that LLP in Italian banks is driven mainly by … local banks: since their loans are more collateralised, their behaviour is more strongly affected by supervisory activity …