to bank governance we document that a higher share of financial experts on the supervisory board is associated with more …

This paper investigates the relative importance of hot money in bank credit and portfolio flows from the US to 18 … permanent component in bank credit flows has significantly increased during the 2000s relative to the 1990s. This finding is …

This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives … on risk-assessment and lending decisions. The paper first shows that, while high-powered incentives lead to greater … screening effort and more profitable lending, their power is muted by both deferred compensation and the limited liability …

Do government-sponsored bank recapitalization programs spur lending and reduce risk? This paper assesses the impact of … Indonesia's bank recapitalization program on lending and bank risk following the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Using unique … bank-level data, difference-in-differences estimates suggest that recapitalization increased lending (and more so for …

This paper examines bank credit growth in emerging markets before, during, and after the 2008-09 financial crisis using … bank-level data, focusing on the role of bank ownership. Credit growth by foreign banks lagged behind that of domestic …

This paper investigates whether the new Basel Accord will induce a change in bank …