We examine the impact of bank supervision on the financing obstacles faced by almost 5,000 corporations across 49 …. Finally, we find that bank supervisory agencies that force accurate information disclosure by banks and enhance private …

We assemble data on the structure of bank supervision, distinguishing supervision by the central bank from supervision … countries from 1998 through 2010, we find that supervisory responsibility tends to be assigned to the central bank in low …. Countries with independent supervisors other than the central bank have fewer nonperforming loans as a share of GDP even after …

In this paper and the associated online database, we provide new data and measures of bank regulatory and supervisory … questions, including information on permissible bank activities, capital requirements, the powers of official supervisory … performance of banking systems. Since the underlying surveys are large and complex, we construct summary indices of key bank …

how bank supervision and regulation affected banking stability during the Great Depression. In response to well …-organized interest groups and public concern over the bank failures of the 1920s, many U.S. states adopted supervisory and regulatory … liquidate banks quickly experienced higher state bank suspension rates from 1929 to 1933 …