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 …

rapidly developing financial system. Specifically, we exam whether the central bank's monetary policy stance affects banks … the existence of a bank lending channel in Russia. Contrary to several studies on developed economies, the level of a bank …

This paper examines how the introduction of deposit insurance influences the relationship between bank capital and …, Russia, provides a natural experiment to investigate this issue. We study three alternative measures of bank liquidity … insurance scheme exerts a limited impact on the relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation and does not change the …

China employs a unique foreign bank entry model. Instead of allowing full foreign control of domestic banks, foreign … investors are expected to commit to bank corporate governance improvement and new technology support. In this context, the paper … examines the effect of foreign strategic investors on Chinese bank performance. Based on a unique data set of bank ownership …

present on the borrowers’ side; it is estimated that about half of state-owned commercial bank lending still goes to state …

This paper introduces the “Excessive Liquidity Creation Hypothesis,” whereby a rise in a bank’s core liquidity creation … activity increases its probability of failure. Russia experienced many bank failures over the past decade, making it an ideal … that excessive liquidity creation significantly increased the probability of bank failure during our observation period …