This paper investigates the characteristics of resource-backed lending across sub-Saharan Africa. To shed light on this type of lending, the paper presents new information on thirty resource-backed loans identified through publicly available information between 2004-2018. These loans are...

This study investigates the determinants of corporate lending in Ukraine with a focus on distinguishing between supply and demand factors. I use a two-step process to build a credit standards index (CSI) based on disaggregated data from the Ukrainian bank lending survey (BLS). This paper...

Verlagsinfo: An den nationalen und internationalen Geld-, Kredit- und Kapitalmärkten ist seit einigen Jahren eine Reihe von Entwicklungstendenzen beobachtbar, die die Funktionsweise dieser Märkte offenbar nachhaltig beeinflussen. Deregulierungs- und Liberalisierungsmassnahmen ermoglichen die...