Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks' preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …

We use a matching method that constructs synthetic counterfactual states to identify the channels that link bank … deregulation to financial integration, and thereby to economic growth. We document a positive, but conditional, effect of financial …

Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks’ preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …

following deregulation. Deregulation also amplifies bank credit from productive private firms to inefficient SOEs due mainly to …Using proprietary individual level loan data, this paper explores the economic consequences of the 2009 bank entry … deregulation in China. Such deregulation leads to higher screening standards, lower interest rates, and lower delinquency rates for …

Using comprehensive loan-level data in China, we investigate how the deregulation on bank entry barriers alters local … deregulation are adversely mitigated by entrant banks’ preferences for lending to SOEs over more productive private firms. This …