This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where … original approach based on stochastic frontier analysis. Our findings suggest bank ownership affected credit supply during the …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …

countries. We use a unique dataset of about 400 bank loans from 16 transition countries. Our findings support the view of a …

This paper considers whether local bank participation exerts an impact on the spreads for syndicated loans in Russia … variables including information on local bank participation and the characteristics of loans and borrowers. Unlike earlier … local presence may influence a foreign bank’s monitoring ability and access to information about borrowers. We observe no …

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …

the reasons vary according to the type of collateral. We use a unique dataset of bank loans granted to French distressed … of the bank to secure a loan, as no type of collateral helps to solve adverse selection and moral hazard problems. The …

bank loans from 43 countries. We test whether the degree information asymmetries affects the link between the presence of …

use the portfolio approach to assess the optimal risk-return combination of a bank’s portfolio, based on data for 32 … categories of loans. It provides a benchmark for the optimality of the bank’s portfolio. The authors apply this method on an …

bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management. …