This study examines the effectiveness of bank recapitalization policies in Japan. Based on a reading of the "business … Japan: (1) to increase the bank capital ratios; (2) to increase write-offs of non-performing loans; (3) to increase lending … a panel of individual bank data, we empirically estimate the effectiveness of the Japanese government policy of public …

This study examines the effectiveness of bank recapitalization policies in Japan. Based on a careful reading of the … injection plan in Japan: 1) to increase the bank capital ratios 2) to increase lending, in particular to small and medium …. Using a panel of individual bank data, we empirically estimate the effectiveness of the Japanese government policy of public …

Do government-sponsored bank recapitalization programs spur lending and reduce risk? This paper assesses the impact of … Indonesia's bank recapitalization program on lending and bank risk following the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Using unique … bank-level data, difference-in-differences estimates suggest that recapitalization increased lending (and more so for …

We use a matching method that constructs synthetic counterfactual states to identify the channels that link bank …