This paper investigates the relative importance of hot money in bank credit and portfolio flows from the US to 18 … permanent component in bank credit flows has significantly increased during the 2000s relative to the 1990s. This finding is …

Do government-sponsored bank recapitalization programs spur lending and reduce risk? This paper assesses the impact of … Indonesia's bank recapitalization program on lending and bank risk following the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Using unique … bank-level data, difference-in-differences estimates suggest that recapitalization increased lending (and more so for …

, size, profitability, lending channel, and equity-to-asset ratio significantly affect capital adequacy. Also, the factors …. Additionally, lending channels negatively affect capital adequacy, especially among deposit-taking MFIs. Economic growth reduces …