This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … size of which depends to an extent on the bank’s ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …

This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …

syndicated loans to corporate borrowers in China. In line with theoretical literature, ownership concentration of the borrowing … foreign banks relative to local banks in China. Moreover, it appears that increased financial leverage discourages foreign … bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management. …

This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where … original approach based on stochastic frontier analysis. Our findings suggest bank ownership affected credit supply during the …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …

This paper considers whether local bank participation exerts an impact on the spreads for syndicated loans in Russia … variables including information on local bank participation and the characteristics of loans and borrowers. Unlike earlier … local presence may influence a foreign bank’s monitoring ability and access to information about borrowers. We observe no …

There have been profound changes in both political and economic institutions in China over the last twenty years …