Lending corruption is an important agency problem for banks. Using data from the World Bank Business Environmental …

We examine whether and how lending banks around the world respond to borrowers' carbon emissions – the major …

While regulatory capital buffers are expected to be drawn to absorb losses and meet credit demand during crises, this …-cyclical behaviour to preserve capital ratios. By employing granular data from the credit register of the European System of Central … Banks, we isolate credit supply effects and find that banks with little headroom above regulatory buffers reduced their …

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 …

, and lower credit ratings, despite reducing their leverage. Overall, our results indicate that the observed higher loan …