Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2018

This paper attempts to link bank loan supply shocks to the real economic activity at the firm and aggregate level. We apply the methodology pioneered by Amiti and Weinstein (2017) to bank-firm credit registry dataset in Thailand for the period of 2004-2015. Loan growth dynamics of individual banks a...
Keywords: Bank supply shocks, Credit cycle, Bank relationships, Bank concentration, Granular shocks, Firm investment, Credit registry data, Thailand
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2021

We study the impact of China’s 2013 implementation of Basel III on bank risk-taking and its responses to monetary policy shocks using confidential loan-level data from a large Chinese bank. Guided by theory, we use a difference-in-difference identification, exploiting cross-sectional differences i...
Keywords: Bank risk taking, bank capital regulations, portfolio choices, Macroprudential Policy, monetary policy, capital reallocation, China
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Annual Conference

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Accounting, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

This study examines the effect of bank monitoring on corporate tax planning behavior. To identify the causal effect, we use a regression discontinuity design, taking advantage of the discrete nature of bank control rights surrounding covenant violation thresholds. We find that strengthened bank moni...
Keywords: Bank monitoring, tax planning, loan covenants, cash tax savings, tax risk, regression discontinuity design
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Webinar Series

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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Feb 2023

This paper studies how banks compete amid digital disruption and the resulting distributional effect across consumers. Digital disruption increases the geographic coverage of banking services, bringing new entrants to local markets. However, as digital customers shift from branches to digital servic...
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Senior Fellows/Fellows

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Senior Fellows/Fellows

We model a market in which traders lay off their excess inventories of an asset in a sequence of size-discovery sessions and on a continuously operating exchange. Taking the exchange as given, we derive a size-discovery mechanism that efficiently reallocates the asset across traders at each session...
Keywords: mechanism design, price impact, size discovery, allocative efficiency, workup, dark pool, market design
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