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 …

This paper analyses the effect of bank profitability on economic growth. While policymakers have shown major concerns … for low levels of bank profitability, there are no empirical studies on the growth effects of bank profitability. To fill … this gap, we investigate the impact of bank profitability on economic growth using a sample of 133 countries during the …