Purpose: This study aims to cover an important yet largely under-explored topic: the dynamic process of bank liquidity management in a vast developing economy by considering pool of funds hypothesis, signaling hypothesis and risk management hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach: The authors...

Using a survey of 41,862 manufacturing firms in Indonesia from 2004 through 2013, this study documents that firms in provinces with deeper financial infrastructure exhibit better performance in general. A closer investigation however highlights that such findings are more pronounced for firms...

We investigated whether a bank’s popularity and depositors’ fear of Google search volume could affect bank deposits and credit. We use Google Trends data combined with BankFocus on the Indonesian banking industry, which offers a unique setting with massive Internet penetration in banking and...