Using a rare flood in April 2019 in Iran as a natural experiment, we study the role of local banks in mitigating the financial consequence of natural disasters to smallholder farmers. We find that local branches immediately react to the disaster by increasing their lending for two months...

Non-performing assets(NPA) in the agriculture sector specially in India has become a perennial problem. This paper attempts to study the non-repayment of loan instalment in agriculture with special reference to small and marginal farmers. Nowadays NPA's have become the cause of concern for...

Following the using a panel of 402 commercial banks from 15 developing countries over the period between 2000-2003 period, we assess the effect of bank size on technical efficiency and its two components: pure technical and scale efficiencies. We use in this study data envelopment approach (DEA)...