decomposition method. To illustrate this method they provide a community description of the Japanese bank-firm credit network …, getting evidence of a strengthening of communities over time and finding support for the well-known Japanese main bank system …

literature. This paper seeks to study the determinants of bank asset quality and profitability using panel data techniques and … contrary to the general perception. Similarly, with regard to rural bank branches, the results reveal that aversion to rural …

in the short run. These funds would not rescue banks but they would kick in as soon as a bank's equity is depleted in …

-cost channel" of monetary policy. The thrust of the model is that firms' reliance on bank loans ("credit channel") may make … aggregate supply sensitive to bank interest rates ("cost channel"), which are in turn driven by the official rate controlled by … the central bank. The model is assessed theoretically by examining whether, and under what conditions, changes in the …

Use of a promise to pay by a bank to insure an outstanding loan in order to return the value of the insured amount into …