Foreign bank lending during a crisis: The impact of financial regulations

Financing constraints and firm-level responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: International evidence

“…Bank lending behavior during economic downturns has been widely studied in the finance literature ( Atahau and Cronje, 2020 ; D’Aurizio et al, 2015 ; Hsieh and Lee, 2020 ; Kapan and Minoiu, 2018 ; Sääskilahti, 2016 ). The conventional view is that financial crises disrupt the credit allocation process, resulting in limited credit supply and higher credit costs.…”

Nonlinear effects of bank regulation stringency on bank lending in selected sub-Saharan African countries

“…In the literature, bank lending is mainly proxied either by domestic bank credit to the private sector (see Barth et al, 2004;Cottarelli et al, 2005;Amidu, 2014;Fratzscher et al, 2016;Cerutti et al, 2017;Merrouche and Nier, 2017;Akinci and Olmstead-Rumsey, 2018;Revelo et al, 2020) or total bank loans (see Ko sak et al, 2015;Sum, 2016;Ibrahim and Rizvi, 2018;Klingelh€ ofer and Sun, 2019;G omez et al, 2020;Hsieh and Lee, 2020). However, this study follows Barth et al (2004), Cottarelli et al (2005) and Merrouche and Nier (2017) by using a more standard measure of bank lending, which is bank credit to the domestic private sector as a share of gross domestic product (GDP).…”

“…With this analysis, the paper contributes to the literature on the effects of bank regulation on bank lending. There is a growing number of studies assessing how the following bank regulatory measures influence bank lending: bank entry barriers (see Barth et al, 2004;Cottarelli et al, 2005;Amidu, 2014;Merrouche and Nier, 2017), restrictions on the mixing of banking and commerce as well as on bank activities (see Barth et al, 2004;Amidu, 2014;Sum, 2016;Merrouche and Nier, 2017;Ibrahim and Rizvi, 2018;Hsieh and Lee, 2020) and capital regulations (see Amidu, 2014;Bridges et al, 2014;Ko sak et al, 2015;Fratzscher et al, 2016;Sum, 2016;Merrouche and Nier, 2017;Ibrahim and Rizvi, 2018;Temesvary, 2018;Hsieh and Lee, 2020) [1]. However, the evidence from these studies on how bank regulation affects bank lending is inconclusive.…”

Does economic complexity influence environmental performance? Empirical evidence from OECD countries

“…Series of studies have expressed economic complexity as the productive composition characterising an economy in relation to the level of sophistication involved in its productive capabilities and industrial structures (Albeaik et al, 2017;Boleti et al, 2021;Hausmann et al, 2007;Hausmann et al, 2014;Lapatinas et al, 2019). Some studies have also attempted to quantify the productive structure of different economies (Asane-Otoo, 2015;Brooks & Sethi, 1997;Hsieh & Lee, 2020 Historically, the OECD member countries have benefited from energy-led growth (Shafiei & Salim, 2014;Wang et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2021). Between 1997 and2005, gross domestic product (GDP) rose by approximately 45% from 25,515,327 million USD to 36,980,213 million USD.…”

“…Series of studies have expressed economic complexity as the productive composition characterising an economy in relation to the level of sophistication involved in its productive capabilities and industrial structures (Albeaik et al, 2017; Boleti et al, 2021; Hausmann et al, 2007; Hausmann et al, 2014; Lapatinas et al, 2019). Some studies have also attempted to quantify the productive structure of different economies (Asane‐Otoo, 2015; Brooks & Sethi, 1997; Hsieh & Lee, 2020; Lee & Wang, 2021; Olasehinde‐Williams & Oshodi, 2021).…”