The growth of India's manufacturing sector since 1991 has been attributed mostly to trade liberalization and more … permissive industrial licensing. This paper demonstrates thesignificant impact of a neglected factor: India's policy reforms in …

This paper examines the association between the default risk of foreign bank subsidiaries and their parents during the … disclosure requirements and tougher restrictions on bank activities …

This paper examines the impact of bank ownership on credit growth in developing countries before and during the 2008 …-2009 crisis. Using bank-level data for countries in Eastern Europe and Latin America, it analyzes the growth of banks' total gross … government-owned bank credit growth across regions. In Eastern Europe, foreign bank total lending fell by more than domestic …

This paper presents recent trends in government and foreign bank ownership across countries and summarizes the evidence … regarding the implications of bank ownership structure for bank performance and competition, financial stability, and access to … expanding access to credit. The record on the impact of government bank ownership suggests few benefits, especially for …

recent years. The paper finds a positive and significant impact of Equity Bank, a leading private commercial bank, on … financial access, especially for underprivileged households. Equity Bank's business model -- providing financial services to …

at the core of policymakers? agendas. The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and the World Bank Group, in response …

in Mexico, matched with firm and bank balance-sheet data, and by exploiting foreign monetary policy shocks, given the …

reduce their lending to developing countries in the event of a financial crisis. The analysis combines a bank-level dataset … of bank activity and ownership with country-level data on the stock of historical crisis events between 1800 and 2005. To … different types of crises. The question of learning is also examined from the perspective of other measures of bank performance …