performance at the firm level. Our analysis suggests that electricity bottlenecks, limited product market competition, and labor …

This paper describes the situation of bank distress which developed in Bangladesh since 1983-84. Since the key problem … banks are state-owned, there has been no banking crisis, although costs to the economy have been high. Main causes of …

in the GCC. We use bank-level panel data, exploiting variation across banks within countries, to isolate the impact of … addition, we explore the role of shifts in the quantity of bank liabilities as policy rates change and the role of large banks … match shifting U.S. monetary policy. This raises the important question of how changes in U.S. monetary policy affect banks …

We examine how bank competition in the run-up to the 2007-2009 crisis affects banks' systemic risk during the crisis …. Using a sample of the largest listed banks from 15 countries, we find that greater market power at the bank level and higher …. We then investigate whether this effect is influenced by two key bank characteristics: securitization and bank capital …

). We use detailed individual-level survey data, combined with key country-level indicators of bank competition and …, and bank loans). We find that more competition tends to increase the probability of access to these financial products. On …In this paper we study how competition and financial soundness affect financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA …