Using multi-year, firm-level surveys for 53 countries, this paper explores the impact of bank
competition on firms' access to finance. We find that low competition, as measured by high …

This paper presents a comprehensive assessment of the impact of competition on bank
fragility pre and post financial crisis period in the GCC banking market as measured by bank …

Previous studies on developed economies have shown that firms with more research and
development (R&D) activities tend to hold more cash. In a transitional economy, such as …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of different dimensions of
corporate governance practices such as board characteristics, ownership structure …

We use a new dataset on regulation and supervision in 42 countries to study the relationship
between the regulatory framework and bank efficiency in Africa. Specifically, we examine …

This paper investigates risk shifting in commercial banks in the emerging market of Vietnam,
where banks fund domestic asset portfolios almost exclusively from deposits and with limited …

This paper examines how competition influences the loan supply reaction of banks to
monetary policy through the bank lending channel and test whether this reaction differs in …

This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent
financial crisis in Russia, where the banking sector consists of a mix of state-controlled …

In this article we estimate individual banks' Lerner indices for a large group of countries in
the years 1994–2012 by means of the econometric method proposed by Kumbhakar et …

We test the hypothesis that policy interventions in crisis periods are less effective when
markets are integrated, drawing on China and Russia's experience during the global …