This paper investigates to what extent risk management and corporate governance mitigate the involvement of banks in … credit boom and bust cycles. Using a unique, handcollected dataset on 156 banks from Central and Eastern Europe during 2005 …-2012, we assess whether banks with stronger risk management and corporate governance display more moderate credit growth in the …

This paper investigates to what extent risk management and corporate governance mitigate the involvement of banks in … credit boom and bust cycles. Using a unique, hand-collected dataset on 156 banks from Central and Eastern Europe during 2005 …-2012, we assess whether banks with stronger risk management and corporate governance display more moderate credit growth in the …

, suggesting that the asset-liability management of banks constrains the currency-portfolio choices of households. …

despite considerable restructuring, the Kyrgyz banking sector has not become more competitive. As a consequence, banks …

-level distress costs, and also examines the impact of information asymmetry between banks and firms. When foreign currency funds come … distress costs choose foreign currency loans. When the banks have imperfect information on the currency and level of firms …

We investigate whether information sharing among banks has affected credit market performance in the transition …

banks than by the macroeconomic environment or the lack of creditor protection. We find no evidence that foreign bank … among firms in Eastern Europe, compared to Western Europe, is not driven by less need for credit or banks' reluctance to … small and opaque firms, as well as in countries with a strong presence of foreign banks, it seems that firms perceive …