Related Lending and Banking Development

Does related lending have positive or negative effects on the development of banking systems? We analyze a unique cross-country data set covering 74 countries from 1990 to 2007, and find that related lending, on average, does not have any effect on the growth of credit. We do find, however, that the...

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Main Authors: Cull, Robert, Haber, Stephen, Imai, Masami
Format: Journal Article
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5557
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spelling okr-10986-55572021-04-23T14:02:22Z Related Lending and Banking Development Cull, Robert Haber, Stephen Imai, Masami Banks Other Depository Institutions Micro Finance Institutions Mortgages G210 Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation G280 Economic Development: Financial Markets Saving and Capital Investment Corporate Finance and Governance O160 Does related lending have positive or negative effects on the development of banking systems? We analyze a unique cross-country data set covering 74 countries from 1990 to 2007, and find that related lending, on average, does not have any effect on the growth of credit. We do find, however, that there are conditional relationships: related lending tends to retard the growth of banking systems when rule of law is weak, whereas it tends to promote the growth of banking systems when rule of law is strong. We also find that related lending appears to be associated with looting when banks are owned by non-financial firms, but that it does not do so when non-financial firms are owned by banks. Our results indicate that whether related lending is positive or pernicious depends critically on the institutional context in which it takes place; there is no single "best policy" regarding related lending. These findings are robust to alternative specifications, including IV regressions. 2012-03-30T07:33:24Z 2012-03-30T07:33:24Z 2011 Journal Article Journal of International Business Studies 00472506 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5557 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article
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topic Banks
Other Depository Institutions
Micro Finance Institutions
Mortgages G210
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation G280
Economic Development: Financial Markets
Saving and Capital Investment
Corporate Finance and Governance O160
spellingShingle Banks
Other Depository Institutions
Micro Finance Institutions
Mortgages G210
Financial Institutions and Services: Government Policy and Regulation G280
Economic Development: Financial Markets
Saving and Capital Investment
Corporate Finance and Governance O160
Cull, Robert
Haber, Stephen
Imai, Masami
Related Lending and Banking Development
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description Does related lending have positive or negative effects on the development of banking systems? We analyze a unique cross-country data set covering 74 countries from 1990 to 2007, and find that related lending, on average, does not have any effect on the growth of credit. We do find, however, that there are conditional relationships: related lending tends to retard the growth of banking systems when rule of law is weak, whereas it tends to promote the growth of banking systems when rule of law is strong. We also find that related lending appears to be associated with looting when banks are owned by non-financial firms, but that it does not do so when non-financial firms are owned by banks. Our results indicate that whether related lending is positive or pernicious depends critically on the institutional context in which it takes place; there is no single "best policy" regarding related lending. These findings are robust to alternative specifications, including IV regressions.
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author Cull, Robert
Haber, Stephen
Imai, Masami
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Haber, Stephen
Imai, Masami
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title Related Lending and Banking Development
title_short Related Lending and Banking Development
title_full Related Lending and Banking Development
title_fullStr Related Lending and Banking Development
title_full_unstemmed Related Lending and Banking Development
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