Financial crises yield price and quantity rationing of creditworthy borrowers. However, little is known about the relative severity of these rationing types, which borrowers are rationed most, and differences between these borrowers in different nations. Our international data on over 18,000...

This paper investigates the dynamic aggregate response of firm investments to the approval of an IMF arrangement. Using a local projection methodology, we find that distinguishing between General Resource Account (GRA) and Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust (PRGT) financing matters for the path...

We extend the literature on the sovereign-bank nexus by examining the composition effects of sovereign portfolios on banks´ risk profile, unlike previous studies which generally analyzed the determinants of banks’ sovereign portfolios or the size effects of these portfolios. We also differ...

This paper presents new measures of market power rents in loan and deposit markets and examines their impact on bank risk-taking. These new measures are derived from optimality conditions common to a wide variety of theoretical models of banks operating under uncertainty and choosing their risk...