Project description
Understanding the banking sector’s challenges in low-income countries
Financial institutions in low- and middle-income countries face challenges that necessitate careful consideration when formulating financial regulations and government intervention policies. Understanding these challenges is crucial for fostering structural transformation and development. In this context, the ERC-funded FINDEV project investigates the financial frictions affecting financial institutions in low- and middle-income countries. It will explore ethnic favouritism in banking and assess the role of central bank independence in addressing this friction. Additionally, the project will analyse the impact of conflict on the internal organisation of banks and its effects on lending markets within Ethiopian bank branches. Finally, it will examine the implementation of the first asset management companies focusing on non-performing loans in China.
Objective
This proposal consists of three empirical projects to advance our understanding on the specific conditions and frictions faced by financial institutions operating in low and middle-income countries. Understanding these aspects is crucial to elaborate policies of financial regulation and government intervention that promote structural transformation and development.
1. Ethnic Banking and Central Bank Independence. This project plans to study the political economy frictions behind financial regulation in Africa. Combining bank balance sheets and information on bank chief executive officers (CEOs), we will measure the ethnic connotation of banks and the co-ethnicity between CEOs and regulators. We will investigate the existence of ethnic favoritism in banking, the political use of financial regulation and the role of central bank independence in alleviating this friction.
2. Branch Organization, Multiculturalism and Conflict. Organizations decide their internal hierarchy considering the tradeoff between the use of knowledge and the internal frictions in communication and coordination. These frictions may be particularly high in the presence of a multicultural workforce and if conflict exacerbates within-organization differences. Building new data on hierarchy and management practices among Ethiopian bank branches and an experimental survey of lending discrimination, we plan to study the effect of conflict on the internal organization of banks, their hierarchy and effects on lending markets.
3. Market Incompleteness and Non-Performing Loans (NPLs). Structural transformation implies a move from low to high-productivity sectors. However, incomplete markets prevent banks from selling loans from low-productivity sectors and instead oblige banks to hold NPLs, depressing the financing of structural transformation. This project plans to study the introduction of the first Asset Management Companies focusing on NPL in China, with heterogeneous presence across firms and cities.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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20136 Milano
Italy
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