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 …

This paper investigates how government-led banking liberalization affects credit allocation by banks using as a quasi … % increase in debt funding and more than 100-basis-point drop in interest costs despite their inferior credit quality. The debt …

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 …