This work examines the impact of bank efficiency on the bank lending channel in China. Using a sample of 175 Chinese … bank’s efficiency. While bank efficiency does not exert an impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission … expansion of shadow banking activities has been associated with a positive impact of bank efficiency on monetary policy …

This work examines the impact of bank efficiency on the bank lending channel in China. Using a sample of 175 Chinese … bank's efficiency. While bank efficiency does not exert an impact on the effectiveness of monetary policy transmission … expansion of shadow banking activities has been associated with a positive impact of bank efficiency on monetary policy …

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 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 …

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 …