Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the …

Bank distress can have severe negative consequences for the stability of the financial system, the real economy, and … public finances. Regimes for restructuring and restoring banks financed by bank levies and fiscal backstops seek to reduce … these costs. Bank levies attempt to internalize systemic risk and increase the costs of leverage. This paper evaluates the …

Switzerland. For identification, we compare changes in the behavior of banks that had different fractions of their central bank …

of increased bank capital in terms of reduced loans could be substantial, there are good reasons to believe that the … between the capitalization of the banking sector and bank loans using panel cointegration models. We study the evolution of … the German economy for the past 60 years. We find no evidence for a negative impact of bank capital on business loans …

Limited liability and asymmetric information between an investment bank and its lenders provide an incentive for a bank …

credit constraints on firm-level innovation. We find that access to bank credit helps firms to adopt existing products and … acquiring external know-how. We find no evidence that bank credit also stimulates firm innovation through in-house R&D. This …

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 …