Purpose Against the background of growing concerns that development interventions can
sometimes be a zero sum game, the purpose of this paper is to examine the unintended …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and finds no evidence of a negative
correlation between state-ownership of banks and economic growth. Banking crises predict …

This study aims to verify if there is a negative relation between the investment of Brazilian
companies and the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff. The period of analysis …

Este trabalho tem três objetivos. O primeiro é investigar a composição setorial dos
desembolsos do BNDES desde a sua criação, em 1952, com base nos registros históricos …

This paper describes a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in
181 countries. It documents that until 2010, there was a reduction in state-ownership of …

There are 553 development banks in the world: 18% of these institutions have emerged
since the 2008 financial crisis. There is a large theoretical literature on such institutions, but …

Credit crunches are known to shape the depth and duration of recessions (Campello et
al.(2010); Jordà et al.(2013); Reinhart and Rogoff (2009)), and have been considered a …

In late 2017, Brazilian president Michel Temer commissioned a survey about civil service
and government expenditures at the World Bank. The results were catastrophic: The …

The coronavirus disease 2019 has severely affected the financially constrained small and
medium enterprises (SMEs). In response, various countries employed several policies to …

We contribute to the finance-growth nexus literature by showing that credit origin, bank
ownership, type of credit, and bank type matter in economic growth. We use a unique …