Small businesses (SMEs) depend on banks for credit. We show that the severity of the Eurozone crisis was worse in … from international banks. Eurozone banking integration in the years 2000–2008 mainly involved cross-border lending between … banks while foreign banks' lending to the real sector stayed flat. Hence, SMEs remained dependent on domestic banks and were …

This paper uses loan application-level data from a peer-to-peer lending platform to study the risk-taking channel of …

The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …

regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to … annual data from 1999 to 2011 drawn from 132 countries. The probability of a financial crisis fits an inverted U-shaped curve …

We first present a simple model of post-crisis policymaking driven by both public and private interests. Using a novel … interventions in financial markets. Consistent with a public interest channel, we find post-crisis interventions occur only in …

of the domestic violence problem during periods of crisis than traditional, police-recorded crime measures. Analyzing the …