“…With this analysis, the paper contributes to the literature on the effects of bank regulation on bank lending. There is a growing number of studies assessing how the following bank regulatory measures influence bank lending: bank entry barriers (see Barth et al, 2004;Cottarelli et al, 2005;Amidu, 2014;Merrouche and Nier, 2017), restrictions on the mixing of banking and commerce as well as on bank activities (see Barth et al, 2004;Amidu, 2014;Sum, 2016;Merrouche and Nier, 2017;Ibrahim and Rizvi, 2018;Hsieh and Lee, 2020) and capital regulations (see Amidu, 2014;Bridges et al, 2014;Ko sak et al, 2015;Fratzscher et al, 2016;Sum, 2016;Merrouche and Nier, 2017;Ibrahim and Rizvi, 2018;Temesvary, 2018;Hsieh and Lee, 2020) [1]. However, the evidence from these studies on how bank regulation affects bank lending is inconclusive.…”