devoted to systematically and comprehensively assess the degree to which WTO Members discriminate against foreign bank. This … available on their current regulatory regime for banking (based on the responses to a World Bank survey as discussed in Barth …

The recent global financial crisis has spurred renewed interest in identifying those reforms in bank regulation that … would work best to promote bank development, performance and stability. Building upon three recent world-wide surveys on … bank regulation (Barth et al., 2004, 2006, 2008), we contribute to this assessment by examining whether bank regulation …

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 …

unique dataset of bank loans granted to French distressed firms, which contains full information on the type and value of … decision 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 …