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 …

parameters affect bank credit supply … many of these loans are held by more than one bank. We study differences in banks' estimates of risk parameters used to …

We examine how the cost of corporate credit varies around fiscal consolidations aimed at reducing government debt …

question, we identify the compositional changes in banks' supply of credit using the variation in their holdings of residential …

Systemically Important Banks (G-SIBs) on bank lending behaviour. Using a difference-in-differences estimation strategy, we find no … effect of the reforms on overall credit supply, while at the same time documenting a substantial decline in borrower- and …

Between 2010 and 2012 and with bank stability as the ultimate target, five European countries implemented a tax levy on … the impact of the tax levy along bank size and capital structure. We find that banks located in countries where the tax … levy was implemented supply more credit. This increase is more significant for larger lenders and banks that are more …

large U.S. banks assign to syndicated loans for regulatory capital purposes. Using internal bank data on loans that had PDs … and LGDs assigned by more than one bank, we find substantial dispersion in these parameters. Banks differ substantially in … PDs, but only a few set PDs systematically higher or lower than the median bank. However, many banks differ from the …

credit boom and bust cycles. Using a unique, hand-collected dataset on 156 banks from Central and Eastern Europe during 2005 …-2012, we assess whether banks with stronger risk management and corporate governance display more moderate credit growth in the … pre-crisis credit boom as well as a smaller credit contraction and fewer credit losses in the crisis period. With respect …