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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 ...
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 ...
Elections hinder firms’ access to credit
(09.02.2022)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 3/2022
BOFIT Discussion Papers 3/2022
To analyze whether the occurrence of elections affects access to credit for firms, we perform an investigation using firm-level data covering 44 developed and developing countries. The results show that elections impair ...
The vanishing interest income of Chinese banks
(05.02.2020)
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2020
BOFIT Discussion Papers 2/2020
Chinese banks likely have more non-performing loans (NPLs) than officially reported. As hidden NPLs earn no interest income, loan quality problems may erode the gross interest income of banks. Using stochastic frontier ...