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• Access to Finance
• Bank Regulation and Supervision
• Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress
• Corporate Governance
• Deposit Insurance
• Entrepreneurship
• Financial Crises
• Finance, Law and Growth
• Financial Structures - Bank-based vs. market-based financial system
• Foreign Bank Entry
• Small and Medium Enterprises: Overcoming Growth Constraints

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Access to Finance

• Credit Information Infrastructure and Political Economy Issues in South Africa January 13, 2005
• Law, Finance and Firm Growth December 1, 1998
• Capital Structure and Financial Risk: Evidence from Foreign Debt Use in East Asia
• The Determinants of Global Factoring 
• Business Environment and the Incorporation Decision
• Firm financing in India: recent trends and Patterns
• Finances of Egyptian listed firms
• Trade credit and bank credit : evidence from recent financial crises

Bank Regulation and Supervision

• The regulation and supervision of banks around the world - a new database (Vol.1), by James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr. and Ross Levine.  May 2001
• Bank regulation and supervision : what works best? (Vol.1)," by James R. Barth, Gerard Caprio, Jr., and Ross Levine, (443kb). This paper draws lessons from the data base on key regulatory issues for emerging markets with different initial conditions. Updated - December 2001 edition. (click here for paper's appendices)

Bankruptcy and Resolution of Financial Distress

• "Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending", with A. Demirguc-Kunt and R.Levine Journal of Monetary Economics, forthcoming.
• Bank Supervision and Corruption in Lending, with A. Demirgüç-Kunt, and R. Levine
• Corporate Valuation and the Resolution of Bank Insolvency in East Asia

Corporate Governance

• Corporate Governance in Finance: Concepts and International Observations July 15, 2002
• The Role and Functioning of Business Groups in East Asia and Chile 
•  What drives corporate governance reform? firm-level evidence from Eastern Europe

Deposit Insurance

• Evidence of Safety-Net Support for Banks during Economic Development in Canada, the UK, and the US: A Progress Report May 11, 2000
• Deposit Insurance Design and Bailout Costs

  Entrepreneurship

• Barriers to Entrepreneurship, Leora Klapper, Luc Laeven, and Raghuram Rajan. January 2005.

Finance, Law  and Growth

• Finance, Firm Size, and Growth, T. Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt , L. Laeven and R. Levine.
• Does Judicial Efficiency Lower the Cost of Credit?, L. Laeven and G. Majnoni, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2005, forthcoming.
• The Determinants of Financing Obstacles,    T. Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt , L. Laeven and V. Maksimovic, Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming.
• Small and Medium Enterprises across the Globe,   T. Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt and M. Ayyagari.
• Financial and Legal Institutions and Firm Size, Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt and V. Maksimovic
• Financing Patterns around the World: Are Small Firms Different?, T. Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt  and V. Maksimovic.
• SMEs, Growth and Poverty: Cross Country Evidence, with A. Demirgüç-Kunt and R. Levine, Journal of Economic Growth, September 2005, 197-227.
• Financial Development, Property Rights, and Growth, with S. Claessens,  Journal of Finance, Vol. 58, No. 6, pp. 2401-2436, December 2003.
              [This paper was nominated for the 2004 Brattle award for best corporate finance
               paper in the Journal of Finance].
• Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?, T. Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, and V. Maksimovic, Journal of Finance , 60, February 2004, pp. 137-177.  
• Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?, T. Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, and V. Maksimovic, Journal of Finance , 60, February 2004, pp. 137-177. 
• SMEs, Growth and Poverty: Cross Country Evidence, with A. Demirgüç-Kunt and R. Levine, Journal of Economic Growth, September 2005, 197-227.
• Financial Intermediation and Growth: Causality and Causes, Thorsten Beck, R. Levine and N. Loayza, Journal of Monetary Economics 46, August 2000, pp. 31-77. 
• Finance and the Sources of Growth, T. Beck, R. Levine and N. Loayza, Journal of Financial Economics 58, October 2000, pp. 261-300.
• Industry Growth and Capital Allocation: Does Having a Market- or Bank-Based System Matter? T. Beck and R. Levine, Journal of Financial Economics 64, May 2002, pp. 147-180.  
• Stock Markets, Banks and Growth: Panel Evidence, T. Beck and R. Levine, Journal of Banking and Finance 28, March 2004, pp. 423-442.
• A New Database on Financial Development and Structure, T.  Beck, A.Demirgüç-Kunt and R. Levine, World Bank Economic Review, September 2000, pp. 597-605.
• Financial Intermediary Development and Growth Volatility: Do Intermediaries Dampen or Magnify Shocks?, Thorsten Beck, M. Lundberg and G. Majnoni, Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming.
• Financial Development and International Trade. Is There a Link? Thorsten Beck, Journal of International Economics 57, May 2002, pp. 107-131.
• Financial Dependence and International Trade, Thorsten Beck, Review of International Economics 11,  May 2003, pp. 296-316.
• Law and Firms Access to Finance, T. Beck, A.Demirgüç-Kunt  and R. Levine, American Law and Economics Review 7, February 2005, pp. 211-252.
• How well do Institutional Theories Explain Firms Perceptions of Property Rights? A. Demirgüç-Kunt, M. Ayyagari and V. Maksimovic, August 2005.
• Financial development and growth in the short and long run
• Credit reporting and financing constraints
• Financial development and dynamic investment behavior : evidence from panel vector autoregression
• Patterns of industrial development revisited : the role of finance
• Public Credit Registries Survey
• Trade credit, financial intermediary development, and industry growth
• Financial Development and Intersectoral Allocation: A New Approach,  I. Love and R. Fisman, Journal of Finance, forthcoming, 2004.
• Legal Institutions and Financial Development, Thorsten Beck and R. Levine, in Handbook of New Institutional Economics, C. Menard and M. Shirley (eds)., Kluwer Dordrecht (The Netherlands), 2004.
• Law, Endowments, and Finance, T. Beck,  A. Demirgüç-Kunt and R. Levine, Journal of Financial Economics 70, November 2003 pp. 137-181.
• Law and Finance: Why Does Legal Origin Matter? T. Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt and R. Levine, Journal of Comparative Economics 31, December 2003, pp. 653- 675.
• Legal Theories of Financial Development, T. Beck,  A. Demirgüç-Kunt and R. Levine, Oxford Review of Economic Policy 17(4), 2001, pp. 438-501.
• Impediments to the Development and Efficiency of Financial Intermediation in Brazil, Thorsten Beck, Policy Note for the Central Bank of Brazil and World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 2382, June 2000.
• Capital Structures in Developing Countries, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, V. Aivazian, L. Booth and V. Maksimovic,  Journal of Finance , Vol. 56 (1), February 2001.
   
        Nominated for the Journal of Finance Brattle Prize (2001).
        Winner of the Southern Finance Association Best Paper Award, November 1999.
• Law, Finance and Firm Growth, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, V. Maksimovic, Journal of Finance , Vol 53, No. 6, December 1998.
        Nominated for the Journal of Finance Brattle Prize (1998).
• Institutions, Financial Markets and Firm Debt Maturity, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, V. Maksimovic, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 54, No. 3, December 1999.
• Financial Development and Financing Constraints: International Evidence from the Structural Investment Model, I. Love, Review of Financial Studies, Fall 2003; 16: 765 - 791.
• Law, Endowments, and Finance May 19, 2003
  
• Law, Finance and Firm Growth December 1, 1998

Financial Crises

• Bank Insolvency: Bad Luck, Bad Policy, or Bad Banking?
• Is the Crisis Problem Growing More Severe?
• Fiscal Risks of the Banking System: Approaches to Measuring and Managing Contingent Government Liabilities in the Banking Sector
• Financial development and growth in the short and long run
• Trade credit and bank credit : evidence from recent financial crises

Financial Structures - Bank-based vs. market-based financial system

• Funding Growth in Bank-Based and Market-Based Financial Systems: Evidence from Firm Level Data, with V. Maksimovic, Journal of Financial Economics , Vol. 65 (3) September 2002.
• Distorted Incentives and Financial Development in Turkey July 10, 2002
• Industry Growth and Capital Allocation: Does Having a Market- or Bank-Based System Matter?, T. Beck and R. Levine, Journal of Financial Economics 64, May 2002, pp. 147-180.  
• Financial Structure and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Comparison of Banks, Markets, and Development, with R. Levine, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
• International Evidence on Aggregate Corporate Financing Decisions
• The Informational Requirement on Financial Systems at Different Stages of Economic Development: The Case of South Korea 
• Financial Structure in Chile: Macroeconomic Developments and Microeconomic Effects
• Financial Structure and Economic Activity in Mexico
• External Dependence and Industry Growth: Does Financial Structure Matter?
• Corporate Groups, Financial Liberalization and Growth: The Case of Indonesia
• Bank Based or Market Based Financial Systems: Which is Better? 

Foreign Bank Entry

• How Banks Go Abroad: Branches or Subsidiaries? Eugenio Cerutti, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, and Maria Soledad Martínez Pería
• The Mix of International Banks’ Foreign Claims:Determinants and Implications, A. G. Herrero and M. S. Martínez Pería
• Small and Medium Enterprises: Overcoming Growth Constraints
• Finance, Firm Size, and Growth, Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt , L. Laeven and R. Levine
• Financial and Legal Constraints to Firm Growth: Does Firm Size Matter?, Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, and V. Maksimovic, Journal of Finance , 60, February 2004, pp. 137-177.   
• The Determinants of Financing Obstacles,    Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt , L. Laeven and V. Maksimovic, Journal of International Money and Finance, forthcoming.
• SMEs, Growth and Poverty: Cross Country Evidence, Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt and R. Levine, Journal of Economic Growth, September 2005, 197-227.
• Small and Medium Enterprises across the Globe,     Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt and M. Ayyagari.
• Financial and Legal Institutions and Firm Size, Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt and V. Maksimovic.
• Financing Patterns around the World: Are Small Firms Different?, Thorsten Beck, A. Demirgüç-Kunt  and V. Maksimovic.
• How Important Are Financing Constraints? The Role of Finance in the Business Environment, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, M. Ayyagari and V. Maksimovic.
• Firms as Financial Intermediaries: Evidence from Trade Credit Data,  A. Demirgüç-Kunt, V. Maksimovic.
• Business Environment and the Incorporation Decision, A. Demirgüç-Kunt, V. Maksimovic and I. Love.
• The Role of "Reverse Factoring in Supplier Financing of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises , Leora Klapper, October 2004.
• Financing Small and Medium-Size Enterprises with Factoring: Global Growth and Its Potential in Eastern Europe, M. Bakker, L. Klapper and G. Udell, June 2004.