the bank credit crunch. The results are consistent with the "redistribution view" of trade credit provision, in which bank …"The authors study the effect of financial crises on trade credit in a sample of 890 firms in six emerging economies …. They find that although provision of trade credit increases right after the crisis, it consequently collapses in the …

"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank …, including in calculations of credit risk for capital and provisioning requirements, or as a check on a bank's internal ratings … supervision and to improve the quality of credit analysis by financial institutions. Empirical tests using public credit registry …

conducive to crisis can also be associated with more unequal societies."--World Bank web site …

requirements for credit risk that have been drafted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel II). Even though the … revised credit capital rules represent a dramatic change compared to Basel I, it is shown that Basel II merely seeks to codify … (albeit incompletely) existing good practices in bank risk measurement. However, its effective implementation in many …

measured by, for instance, private domestic credit and liquid liabilities (for example, Levine, Loayza, and Beck 2000). On the … other hand, the banking and currency crisis literature finds that monetary aggregates, such as domestic credit, are among … larger effort in the group to understand the sources of growth and volatility"--World Bank web site …

of financial institutions and borrowers to enable them to renegotiate debt and resume new credit supply. Government … department to study the containment and resolution of financial crises"--World Bank web site …

World Bank and the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), along with major fund managers, are formulating sets …