This paper investigates the phenomenon of hidden negative capital (HNC) associated with bank failures and introduces a … mismatches reflecting disproportions between the allocation of bank assets and the sources of funding. We manually collect unique … has two e ects: it leads to a higher probability that a bank's capital is negative and raises the conditional size of the …

the under-performing firm relies heavily on secured and short-term bank lending. Bank loans increase the likelihood of a …

transactions in China. Difference-in-differences tests show firms operating with ex-ante more movable assets expand access to 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 …

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 …

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. …

This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank effieciency. 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 …