Governments provide guarantees to banks, such as deposit insurance, often increasing them during financial crises. While risk effects are well researched, impacts on bank output remain largely unexplored. We investigate bank output effects using data from 75 countries on bank liquidity creation,...

We examine the effects of competition on bank risk. We find strong evidence that interstate banking deregulation — which generally increases bank competition — is associated with lower bank risk and some evidence intrastate branching increases bank risk. Further, interstate banking reduces...

In the first part, this paper aims to examine how explicit deposit insurance coverage affects bank stability using the data from the Indonesian commercial banking industry, which offers a unique setting of natural experiment for this purpose. In the second and third parts, this paper studies how...

This paper is the first to examine whether the loan loss provisioning behavior of Islamic banks is procyclical. From a dynamic panel data methodology, the empirical results show that loan loss provisioning in Islamic banks is indeed procyclical, as higher economic growth leads to a decline in...

This paper investigates whether higher financial literacy boosts demand for financial services in Indonesia. Our empirical results document that individuals with higher financial literacy are associated with higher demand for bank credit. However, the positive impact of financial literacy on...

From a sample of commercial banks in Asia Pacific over the 1994-2009 period, this study highlights that banks in less competitive markets exhibit lower loan growth and higher instability. Such instability is further followed by a decline in deposit growth, suggesting that Asian banks are also...

In this paper, we examine the role of information sharing and borrower legal rights in affecting the procyclical effect of bank loan loss provisions. Based on a sample of Asian banks, our empirical results highlight that higher non-discretionary provisions reduce loan growth and hence,...