We examine the impact of bank supervision on the financing obstacles faced by almost 5,000 corporations across 49 …. Finally, we find that bank supervisory agencies that force accurate information disclosure by banks and enhance private …

type of hidden capital and each class of bank, the model develops estimates of the stock-market, interest-rate, foreign …-exchange, and real estate sensitivities of returns to bank stockholders. Only the stock-market sensitivities prove significant at … five percent. This finding leads us to investigate what happens when we analyze Japanese bank stock returns by means of …

the size of the economy, (2) the association between an increase in economic output and an increase in bank development …

separate firm-borrowing shocks from bank-supply shocks using a vast sample of matched bank-firm lending data. We decompose … aggregate loan movements in Japan for the period 1990 to 2010 into bank, firm, industry, and common shocks. The high degree of … role for granular shocks as in Gabaix (2011). We show that idiosyncratic granular bank-supply shocks explain 30-40 percent …

, real world exports plunged 17 percent while GDP fell 5 percent. This paper examines whether deteriorations in bank health … 1990 through 2010, which enables us to match exporters with the main bank that provides them with trade finance. Our point …