lending behavior between 2003 and 2006. In contrast to the policy of harmonization, differences in bank regulations may …

predominantly by macroeconomic conditions and the strength of the sovereign and their institutional relationship with other ‘bank …

, depositors, and regulators in connection with bank insolvency may corrupt banks' credit allocation and monitoring decisions … potential endogeneity which are usually inherent to research into the real economic implications of bank regulation. We find a … dependent on bank financing. Our findings are robust to various specifications. Investigating the transmission channels of the …

This paper studies episodes in which aggregate bank credit contracts alongside expanding economic activity …

This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …