matter for the relative merits of bank-based and market-based financial systems. Market-based systems work better in low rule … of law countries, while bank-based systems are more efficient in high-rule of law countries. These results are consistent … with the premise that market-based systems’ superiority in solving the incomplete information problem dominates over bank …

Recoveries vary considerably across countries: our paper compares recoveries in bank-based and market-based economies … and finds that market-based economies experience significantly and durably stronger rebounds than the bank-based ones (in … particular the more bank-based economies of continental Europe). Further, stronger recoveries also tend to be associated with …

; however, the impact of bank profitability on economic growth is still unclear. We investigate the link between bank … of bank profitability on economic growth is more prominent in small banking sectors. Perhaps surprisingly, we found that … the bank size has a negative impact on GDP growth, with the influence of bank profitability on economic growth reducing as …