In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, many regimes in Asia adopted stricter provisioning requirements, as well as … throughout emerging Asia, most strikingly so in the case of India. Thus, loan loss provisioning did not simply become more …

intermediation cost in banking. Hence, bank managers in their efforts to overcome asymmetric information issues and to improve … preserve bank opacity. Our findings highlight that bank opacity issues are even more costly in countries with higher …

. Based on a sample of publicly traded banks in Asia from 1998 to 2012, higher abnormal loan growth leads to higher systemic … bureaus can stem the buildup of bank systemic risk one year ahead due to higher abnormal loan growth. Eventually, this paper … negative impact of abnormal loan growth on bank systemic stability …

The global financial crisis underlined that sound and effective bank regulation is vital to financial stability … outbreak. The crisis reflected the failure of regulatory authorities to keep pace with financial innovation. Bank supervision … had been weak by any measure. Supervisors did not conduct regular onsite bank inspections or examinations of sufficient …

bank-specific default-risk variables. Discipline is measured by estimating a supply of deposit funds function at Thai banks … from 1992 to 1997. The results show that supply decreases as bank-specific risk increases. Also, the sensitivity of funds … to changes in bank-specific risk increases as systemic risk rises. Additionally, depositors decrease their sensitivity to …

This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of bank capital on lending and securities holdings in Asian banks … increase in bank capital reduces lending supply, especially lending with a maturity between 1 and 5 years. Conversely, we …

facilities contributes positively and significantly to stability in the banking sector, leading to greater bank resilience …

A recent Asian Development Bank publication estimates the large infrastructure financing requirement in Asia for the …. This paper analyzes a critical aspect of expanding private finance to infrastructure by examining the role of bank lending … guided more by macroeconomic factors and by the strength of their balance sheets. The key policy implications to unlock bank …