We study the role of the bank-lending channel in propagating fluctuations in commodity prices to credit aggregates and … transmission of changes in international commodity prices to domestic bank lending. Identification relies on a bankspecific time …-varying measure of bank sensitivity to changes in commodity prices, based on daily data on bank stock prices. We find that a fall in …

employment effects of a decline in bank credit, investigating individual heterogeneity across firms, workers and jobs in response …

This study examines how bribery influences bank debt ratios for a large sample of firms from 14 transition countries … bribery is positively related to firms' bank debt ratios, which provides evidence that bribing bank officials facilitates … firms' access to bank loans. This impact differs with the maturity of bank debt, as bribery contributes to higher short …