International Lending by U.S. Banks

Recent Developments in Business Lending by Commercial Banks

[note: 1]. C&I loans are business loans not secured by real estate. [emd of note.] Chart 1. R e a l v a l u e o f C & I l o a n s a t b a n k s , 1 9 8 8 2 0 0 3 [the graph starts at about $720 billion in 1988. It goes up to about $760 billion in 1989. It begins the first recession in mid 1990 at about $740 billion and ends the beginning of 1991 at about $710 billion. It goes down to about $620...

Transmission of Shocks Through International Lending of Commercial Banks to LDCs

We analyze the transmission of shocks through international bank lending, as is suggested in Kaminsky and Reinhart [6], by examining the bank’s international lending behavior. We develop a portfolio selection model, which explicitly includes the economic condition of the bank’s home county. This model is estimated using data from the banks of the six largest international creditor countries ove...

The Limits of Lending: Banks and Technology Adoption across Russia∗

We exploit historical and contemporaneous variation in local credit markets across Russia to identify the impact of credit constraints on firm-level innovation. We find that access to bank credit helps firms to adopt existing products and production processes that are new to them. They introduce these technologies either with the help of suppliers and clients or by acquiring external know-how. ...

US Politics and World Bank IDA-Lending

This paper studies the role of US political factors in the allocation of World Bank concessional lending, where US political interests are proxied by voting similarity in the United Nations General Assembly on issues identified as important by the US Department of State. In contrast to previous studies we find that the US exerted a significant influence on IDA lending during the period 1993 200...

Federal Home Loan Bank Lending to Community Banks : Are Targeted