, and the bank approval disparity is also larger in more racially biased counties. We conclude that insofar as automation by …

The Covid-19 pandemic severely affected some categories of non-standard workers, and particularly the self …, Romania and Sweden. [...] …

markets. The analysis shows that swap lines by the Swiss National Bank (SNB) had a positive impact on bank stocks in Central … and Eastern Europe. It then highlights the importance of individual bank characteristics in identifying the impact of swap … lines on bank stocks. Bank-level evidence suggests that stock prices of local and less-well capitalized banks as well as …

(economic overheating, currency overvaluation) and increase financial vulnerabilities (domestic credit growth, bank leverage …, foreign currency-denominated lending). But are all inflows the same? In this paper, we examine whether the source of the …

relationship between bank profits and small business credit. Regression analyses are conducted using the rate of return on assets … potentially could influence this relationship. Due to the fact that small and large banks differ considerably in their lending …, holding constant various bank risk characteristics. …

State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the re-election odds of … incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their lending before … both state-owned and private banks increased their lending before presidential elections. This result stands for all loans …

We investigate whether European banks adjust their loan prices and volumes of new lending in the months running up to … 2010 to 2020 at monthly frequency, and that includes lending amounts and interest rates on new lending, we find that …

representation of this regime, we formulate the central bank’s optimisation problem under the assumption that it is possible for the … MT in the period 1999-2005. We find that during this period Romania's MT regime can be characterised by a concern for … price stability and an additional role for smoothing of the central bank's instrument (base money growth). Our results …

a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001. We …