Whether and to what extent tougher bank regulation weighs on economic growth is an open empirical question. Using data … from 28 manufacturing industries in 50 countries, we explore the extent to which cross-country differences in bank …. We find that industries which are more dependent on external finance, in countries where banks had higher liquidity and …

government interventions in more than 800 banks across 27 countries between 2007 and 2017. For identification, we use a … multivariate matching method. We find that intervened banks experience a significant decline in market power with respect to … matched non-intervened banks. This effect is more pronounced for larger and longer interventions and is driven by a rise in …

allocated to lower capitalized and less profitable banks. As of end-2017, only a few countries had fully divested the initial … liquid banks, and in countries where the economy recovered faster. In countries where the government stake remained high …

In this paper, we discuss whether and how bank lobbying can lead to regulatory capture and have real consequences … through an overview of the motivations behind bank lobbying and of recent empirical evidence on the subject. Overall, the … banks in the early 2000s propelled the financial system and the economy into crisis. While these findings should not be …