mainly on the substitution of bank loans for trade credit during monetary tightening among many firms, but in this paper we … Japan when the banking sector was healthy, but broke down during the banking crisis. More precisely, both bank loans and … trade credit contracted simultaneously during the crisis. Deteriorated bank health might have been primarily responsible for …

This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks financial strength ratings (bank rating) and … they assume and thereby have a low probability of experiencing financial distress. Bank ratings, a measure of a banks … z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …

This paper uses a unique bank level data from 1991 to 2000 and evaluates how financial reforms affect banking … bank size, asset quality and bank branches with efficiency indexes, and also note that every 10% increase in share of …

liberalisation and deregulation measures taken by the central bank over the last two decades. For this purpose, it uses Survey …

follows. In the DIP financing, the Development Bank of Japan always takes the lead, followed by private financial institutions …