In the wake of the global financial crisis, there is growing consensus that national development banks play a valuable role in development finance, at multilateral, regional and national level. This paper looks first at ...

This paper studies the role of government-owned banks in the event of financial crises. The study takes an empirical perspective focusing on bank lending. We compare the lending responses across government-owned and private ...

The effect of the monetary policy lending channel for the Colombian case is analyzed. Based on a monthly sample of credit entities for the period 2000:1 - 2014:12, a heterogeneous dynamic panel model is estimated, which ...