the interest income of a hypothetical profit-maximis-ing Chinese bank with no credit quality problems. Taking the … Chi-nese banks. Our results uncover a substantial weakening in the quality of Chinese bank loan portfo-lios in 2016. Big …

Comparing banks to non-bank lenders, we investigate whether the geographical distance between lenders, borrowers and … period. The difference in loan spread when bank-borrower distance increases from zero to the median of about 900 miles is 17 …, geographical distance does not seem to have any effect on the loan spread of mortgages granted by non-bank lenders. Moreover, loans …

bank-firm level credit data, we show that banks reallocate credit within their loan portfolio in at least three different … which they are more specialized. Third, they reallocate credit towards low-risk firms. These reallocation effects are … transmission of the funding shock to credit supply by 22, 8 and 10 %, respectively. …

natural experiment to study the effects of reduced bank capital adequacy on productivity. Affected banks respond not only by … cutting back on lending but also by reallocating credit to firms in financial distress with prior underreported loan loss … credit reallocation leads to a reallocation of production factors across firms. A partial equilibrium exercise suggests that …

bank-firm level credit data, we show that banks reallocate credit within their loan portfolio in at least three different … which they are more specialized. Third, they reallocate credit towards low-risk firms. These reallocation effects are … transmission of the funding shock to credit supply by 22, 8 and 10%, respectively. …

jeopardized. This raises concerns for lending institutions that have provided credit to these companies, potentially leading to …

bank credit conditions for issuer firms, both at the firm-bank and firm level. We compare new loans granted to issuer firms … addition, issuer firms reduce the amount of used bank credit but increase the overall amount of available external funds …, pointing to a substitution with bank credit and to a diversification of corporate funding sources. Studying their ex …

Bank deregulation in the form of the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act facilitated the entry of non-bank lenders into … the market for syndicated loans during the pre-2008 credit boom. Institutional investors disproportionately purchase … conventional view that regulatory arbitrage caused the rise of non-bank lenders. …

Bank credit, as a means of payment, circulates in a circuit: It is first originated from the banking system, then used …, the credit circulation affects lending efficiency, because banks internalize the effect that a fraction of their credit …

episodes of bank specialization. We use the banks’ real loan allocation worldwide instead of the in-sample data to compute a … bank specialization. We find that firms borrowing from banks with high specialization levels incur lower bank loan spreads …'s sector is the same as its banks' specialized sector. However, this rent would transfer to a discount once the bank is highly …