This study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and country-level instability. Our dynamic model of bank …'s profit maximization predicts a non-monotonic relationship between bank lending and macroeconomic uncertainty. We test this … lending ratio in times of substantial economic volatility, which could be explained by higher risk aversion of bank managers …

the international best practices in bank governance and regulation and listing of major banks at the Hong Kong stock … rather than fundamental change in banker's incentives. Reforms of bank governance and regulatory framework need more time to …

Using evidence from Russia, we explore the effect of the introduction of deposit insurance on bank risk. Drawing on … within-bank variation in the ratio of firm deposits to total household and firm deposits, so as to capture the magnitude of …

that the relative sensitivity of households to bank capitalization diminished markedly with the introduction of an …

explain those particularities by the different methods of banking sector privatization, the different approaches for solving …