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100 1 _aChari, Anusha.
_97823
245 1 4 _aThe Unholy Trinity:
_bRegulatory Forbearance, Stressed Banks and Zombie Firms /
_cAnusha Chari, Lakshita Jain, Nirupama Kulkarni.
260 _aCambridge, Mass.
_bNational Bureau of Economic Research
_c2021.
300 _a1 online resource:
_billustrations (black and white);
490 1 _aNBER working paper series
_vno. w28435
500 _aFebruary 2021.
520 3 _aDuring the global financial crisis, the Reserve Bank of India enacted forbearance measures that lowered capital provisioning rates for loans under temporary liquidity stress. Matched bank-firm data reveal that troubled banks took advantage of the policy to also shield firms facing serious solvency issues. Perversely, in industries and bank portfolios with high proportions of failing firms, credit to healthy firms declined and was reallocated to the weakest firms. By incentivizing banks to hide true asset quality, the forbearance policy provided a license for regulatory arbitrage. The build-up of stressed assets in India's predominantly state-owned banking system is consistent with accounting subterfuge.
530 _aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
538 _aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files.
538 _aMode of access: World Wide Web.
588 0 _aPrint version record
690 7 _aE58 - Central Banks and Their Policies
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aG21 - Banks • Depository Institutions • Micro Finance Institutions • Mortgages
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
690 7 _aG28 - Government Policy and Regulation
_2Journal of Economic Literature class.
700 1 _aJain, Lakshita.
700 1 _aKulkarni, Nirupama.
710 2 _aNational Bureau of Economic Research.
830 0 _aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)
_vno. w28435.
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.nber.org/papers/w28435
856 _yAcceso en lĂ­nea al DOI
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w28435
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