corresponding imperfect substitutability between private and commercial credit for the entrepreneur's relationship bank is then …

We classify a large sample of banks according to the geographic diversification of their international syndicated loan … most stable source of funding, while foreign banks with little diversification are the most fickle. Our findings suggest …

bank segregations are effective in cleaning up balance sheets and promoting bank lending only if they combine … purchases are funded privately; (ii) smaller shares of the originating bank's assets are segregated; and (iii) asset segregation … problem associated with the creation of a bad bank …

This paper investigates the bank lending-channel of monetary policy (MP) surprises. To identify the effects of MP … this high-frequency identification strategy to comprehensive and matched bank-firm data from Brazil. The results are robust … across financial intermediaries, e.g. bank capital, are relevant. Firms connected to stronger banks mitigate about one third …

to idiosyncratic factors. In particular, the bank-specific credit growth rates - usually thought of as a measure of …

. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies …. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional approaches to measure competition concluded that bank competition in … specifications and estimation methods. All in all, our analysis suggests that bank lending markets in China have been more …