Using a comprehensive database on bank credit, covering 135 developing countries over the period 1960–2011, we identify …

relationship between bank-specific, macroeconomic determinants, and institutional environment non-performing loans on country …

This paper studies the business cycle effects on the performance of commercial bank loan portfolios across major … related to expected losses in bank income statements). Our results indicate that while economic growth is the main driver of … equivalent to the median emerging market bank profitability; while a decline of more than 10 pp in growth implies significant …

This paper investigates whether the effect of bank lending shocks has changed over time using a sign-restriction Vector … Autoregression approach. To the extent to which the effect of bank lending shocks depends critically on firms' ability to access …. Indeed, we confirm that the effect of bank lending shocks on output has decreased significantly since the 1980s. Consistent …

public guarantee programmes and by the European Central Bank’s policies on the provision of liquidity to credit institutions …