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Lending Concentration, Bank Performance and Systemic Risk : Exploring Cross-Country Variation
Beck, Thorsten - 2013
portfolio might also enhance stability. This paper finds that sectoral specialization increases volatility and systemic risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011395880
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Housing Finance across Countries : New Data and Analysis
Badev, Anton - 2014
This paper presents new data on the depth and penetration of mortgage markets across countries. There is a large variation across both dimensions of mortgage market development, across countries, but also-in terms of depth-within countries. Mortgage markets seem to develop only at relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396027
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The role of economists in the new world order
Beck, Thorsten - In: Quo vadis? : identity, policy and the future of the …, (pp. 147-151). 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011644416
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Bank Financing For SMEs Around The World : Drivers, Obstacles, Business Models, And Lending Practices
Beck, Thorsten - 2008
enterprises (SMEs) around the world. They find that banks perceive the SME segment to be highly profitable, but perceive … have set up dedicated departments and decentralized the sale of products to the branches. However, loan approval, risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520974
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The Typology of Partial Credit Guarantee Funds Around The World
Beck, Thorsten - 2008
countries. They focus on the respective role of government and the private sector and different pricing and risk reduction tools … and management, but less so in risk assessment and recovery. There is a surprisingly low use of risk-based pricing and … limited use of risk management mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010520988
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Benchmarking Financial Development
Beck, Thorsten - 2008
Capitalizing on recent improvements in the availability of cross-country financial sector data, this paper proposes a standard methodology for benchmarking the policy component of financial development. Systematic controls are introduced to isolate main structural country characteristics and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521121
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Finance et croissance : le trop serait-il l'ennemi du bien? : too much of a good thing? ; Commentaires sur "Développement financier et croissance économique : les connus connus, le...
Beck, Thorsten - In: Revue d'économie du développement : revue trimestrielle 22 (2014) 2, pp. 67-73
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464011
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A Conference on postcrisis banking
Beck, Thorsten; Haan, Jakob de; DeYoung, Robert - In: Journal of money, credit and banking : JMCB 46 (2014), pp. 1-11
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464054
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Banking Services For Everyone ? : Barriers To Bank Access And Use Around The World
Beck, Thorsten - 2006
Using information from 193 banks in 58 countries, the authors develop and analyze indicators of physical access, affordability, and eligibility barriers to deposit, loan, and payment services. They find substantial cross-country variation in barriers to banking and show that in many countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521984
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Resolution of failed banks by deposit insurers : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2006
thus dampens the negative effect that deposit insurance has on banks' risk taking. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522141