“…From the policy makers' point of view, understanding the bank specific factors may be useful to make effective policies (Klomp and Haan, 2012;Ghosh, 2015). The examination includes liquidity factors (Ivashina and Scharfstein, 2010;Cornett et al, 2011;Khan et al, 2017), capital factors (Chu et al, 2019), ownership structure (Brei and Schclarek, 2013;Chen et al, 2016;Choi et al, 2016;Davydov, 2018), and publicly held banks (Duprey, 2015). Therefore, this study will try to examine those various factors in explaining the variations in loan growth.…”