address the following questions. How are macroeconomic shocks transmitted to bank risk and other banking variables? What are … the sources of bank heterogeneity, and what explains differences in individual banks' responses to macroeconomic shocks …? Our paper has two main findings: (i) Average bank risk declines, and average bank lending increases following expansionary …

This paper examines the bank lending channel of monetary transmission in Malaysia, a country with a dual banking system … (TVAR) model is estimated to take into account possible nonlinearities in the relationship between bank lending and monetary …