This paper aims to examine the underlying causes of the sharp reduction in bank lending, which in turn is highlighting … introduces the paper. Section 2 analyzes some drivers of the bank loans market in the current financial crisis. Section 3 … examines the increasing role of standardized bank lending practices that have enlarged the organizational and strategic …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while …