their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site … obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. … purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impacts of these changes in banking on total factor productivity. The authors first …

Japanese banking crisis. By leveraging a unique dataset merging firm-level financial statements and bank balance sheets, the … study aims to examine whether the capital injections primarily benefited high-productivity firms or were misallocated to … struggling "zombie" firms. The empirical results suggest that banks, post-injection, increased lending to both high-productivity …