cost on the use of bank loan commitments. A simple inventory-based model shows that lower agency cost facilitates more … deregulation is weak or non-existent. Considering the role of bank loan commitments, these results provide one route though which …

We analyze the root causes of the current crisis by studying the determinants of bank lending standards in the Euro … Area using the answers from the confidential Bank Lending Survey, where national central banks request quarterly …-term interest rates on bank risk-taking, even when we instrument securitization. Moreover, short-term rates – directly and in …

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 …

Poland at the beginning of the 1990s, existing legal environment and from the extent to which the bank completed the process … restructuring in a commercial bank …

bank segregations are effective in cleaning up balance sheets and promoting bank lending only if they combine … purchases are funded privately; (ii) smaller shares of the originating bank's assets are segregated; and (iii) asset segregation … problem associated with the creation of a bad bank …