decrease of bank lending after the Lehman Brothers collapse …

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 …

Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … to benefit more from being diversified. This analysis provides important strategic and policy implications for bank …

We propose a generic oligopsony-oligopoly model to study bank behavior under uncertainty in developing countries. We …

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

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 … which depends to an extent on the bank's ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements can improve …