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State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the re-election odds of incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their lending before presidential elections during 2004-2019, a period...
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We investigate whether European banks adjust their loan prices and volumes of new lending in the months running up to major national elections. Using a unique dataset that draws on data covering some 250 banksin 19 Eurozone countries from 2010 to 2020 at monthly frequency, and that includes...
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This paper summarizes the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey. The paper explores … and summarizes the evolution in bank capital regulations, capitalization of banks, market discipline, and supervisory … crisis. Bank supervision became stricter and more complex compared with the pre-global financial crisis period. However …
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This paper finds that lending by state banks is less procyclical than lending by private banks, especially in countries with good governance. Lending by state banks in high-income countries is even countercyclical. On the liability side, state banks expand potentially unstable non-deposit...
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This paper presents the latest update of the World Bank Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey, and explores two … on non-bank activities, (c) were less strict in the regulatory treatment of bad loans and loan losses, and (d) had weaker … schemes became more generous, and some reforms were introduced in the area of bank governance and bank resolution …
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