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Russia's 1999–2000 election cycle and the politics-banking interface
(01.11.2017)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2017
BOFIT Discussion Papers 17/2017
We investigate whether lending by the dominant Russian state bank, Sberbank, contributed to Vladimir Putin’s ascent to power during the presidential elections of March 2000. Our hypothesis is that Sberbank corporate loans ...
Banks as corporate monitors: Evidence from CEO turnovers in China
(19.12.2016)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 19/2016
BOFIT Discussion Papers 19/2016
This paper examines the governance role of banks in replacement of underperforming CEOs in firms listed on Chinese stock exchanges. Under most circumstances, the findings suggest that the presence of outstanding loans ...
Benford’s law and Chinese banks’ non-performing loans
(19.12.2019)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 25/2019
BOFIT Discussion Papers 25/2019
Benford’s law states that the leading significant digits in real-world data sets, provided the data span several orders of magnitude, are not normally uniformly distributed. Deviations from this law may indicate human ...
Political cycles and bank lending in Russia
(25.03.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 8/2020
State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the reelection odds of incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their ...
Managerial and financial barriers to the net-zero transition
(17.05.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 6/2021
We use data on 11,233 firms across 22 emerging markets to analyze how credit constraints and low-quality firm management inhibit corporate investment in green technologies. For identification we exploit quasi-exogenous ...
City commercial banks and credit allocation : Firm-level evidence
(09.03.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 4/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 4/2021
This paper investigates how government-led banking liberalization affects credit allocation by banks using as a quasi-natural experiment the establishment of city commercial banks (CCBs) in China. Based on more than three ...
Lending without creditor rights, collateral, or reputation : The “trusted assistant” loan in 19th century China
(29.08.2017)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 13/2017
BOFIT Discussion Papers 13/2017
This paper considers lending to finance projects in a setting where repayment enforcement appears impossible. The loan was illegal and thus legally unenforceable. Creditors were incapable of applying private coercion to ...
Banking globalization, local lending, and labor market effects : Micro-level evidence from Brazil
(14.06.2017)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 11/2017
BOFIT Discussion Papers 11/2017
This paper estimates the effect of a foreign funding shock to banks in Brazil after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008. Our robust results show that bank-specic shocks to Brazilian parent banks negatively ...
Banks vs. markets : Are banks more effective in facilitating sustainability?
(27.04.2022)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2022
BOFIT Discussion Papers 5/2022
Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk? Using a novel sample covering 3,783 U.S. public firms from 2007 to 2020, we study how firm-level ...
Bank risk-taking and monetary policy transmission : Evidence from China
(29.10.2021)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 15/2021
BOFIT Discussion Papers 15/2021
We study the impact of China’s 2013 implementation of Basel III on bank risk-taking and its responses to monetary policy shocks using confidential loan-level data from a large Chinese bank. Guided by theory, we use a ...