positive and significant impact of Equity Bank, a leading private commercial bank on financial access, especially for under …-privileged households. Equity Bank's business model--providing financial services to population segments typically ignored by traditional …

For over a century, economists and policy makers have debated the relative merits of bank-based versus market …-based financial systems. Recent research, however, argues that classifying countries as bank-based or market is not a very fruitful … robustly linked with economic growth, there is no support for either the bank-based or market-based view …

that has survived the worst of the economic and political crises of the last decades is highly profitable. Bank …

We study the transmission of monetary policy through bank securities portfolios using granular supervisory data on U ….S. bank securities, hedging positions, and corporate credit. Banks that experienced larger losses on their securities during …

shocks of sanctions and falling oil prices suffered by Russia in 2014, we investigate the effects on Italian firms and banks … to Russia, but it did not affect the overall amount of credit available to them. Banks relatively more exposed to Italian … exporters to Russia cut their overall credit supply, especially vis-à-vis ex ante risky borrowers, but continued to provide …