empirical evidence of the damage for bank balance sheets is relatively scant. This paper provides preliminary estimates of the … aggregate impact of physical risks from climate and environmental-related natural disasters on bank balance sheets across 184 …

This paper studies the effect of bank ownership on product innovation by borrowing firms, highlighting the role of the … state, foreign, and combined foreign-state bank ownership. It uses Enterprise Survey data for more than 22,000 firms in 49 … paper confirms that a firm's access to bank credit is associated with a greater probability of product innovation, even when …

Interest rate caps can have far-reaching consequences on the composition and maturity of commercial bank loans and … caps of 2016. Using bank-level panel data from before and after the caps, the paper identifies a significant decline in … of commercial bank executives, and have important implications for economic growth and financial inclusion …

The costs of financial intermediation have important consequences for financial development. Using bank-level data for … 160 countries during 2005-14, this paper analyzes the composition and sources of bank net interest margins. First, it uses … underlying bank-level, structural, macroeconomic, and institutional determinants of net interest margins. Finally, the paper uses …

access to financial services, measured by the number of bank branches, on working poverty and inequality in the labor market …