Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) on bank lending behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find no … effect of the reforms on overall credit supply, while at the same time documenting a substantial decline in borrower- and …

natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by … cutting back on lending but also by reallocating credit to firms in financial distress with prior underreported loan loss … credit reallocation leads to a reallocation of production factors across firms. A partial equilibrium exercise suggests that …

Bank deregulation in the form of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act facilitated the entry of non-bank lenders into … the market for syndicated loans during the pre-2008 credit boom. Institutional investors disproportionately purchase … conventional view that regulatory arbitrage caused the rise of non-bank lenders. …