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The Central European banking industry is dominated by foreign-owned banks. During the recent crisis, for the first time since the transition, foreign parent companies were frequently in a worse financial condition than their subsidiaries. This situation created a unique opportunity to study new...
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The Central European banking industry is dominated by foreign-owned banks. During the recent crisis, for the first time since the transition, foreign parent companies were frequently in worse financial conditions than their subsidiaries. This situation created a unique opportunity to study new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103819
Formal enforcement actions issued against banks for violations of laws and regulations related to safety and soundness can theoretically have both positive and negative effects on the terms of lending. Using data on such enforcement actions issued against U.S. banks, we show that they have a...
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The positive relation between financial development and economic growth seems to have weakened in recent years and when analyzing only developed countries. We suggest here that banks' relative ability to intermediate funds cost-efficiently is a quality-based measure of financial development that...
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observe a significant impact on most of the fronts. MFIs’ participation increases overall savings (total bank deposits) and …
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We examine the effect of firm credit rating downgrades on the pricing and structure of syndicated bank loans following … bounded firms' bank financing costs …
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We examine the effect of the full set of bank capital regulations (capital stringency) on loan growth, using bank …
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are required to purchase a distressed bank because of political factors (the government's role), their performances are at …
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disciplining banks. Under our proposal, investors buy the subdebt of a bank only if they receive favourable information about the … bank, and the bank is subject to a regulatory examination if it fails to issue subdebt. By forcing banks to be examined …-destroying actions to benefit themselves, but may also encourage banks to lower asset risk. It shows that subdebt regulation and bank …
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Recently, banking literature has had a quest for appropriate pricing of bank loans under the new Basel II rules and has … price bank's corporate loans, aiming at making bank managers aware of the creation/destruction of shareholder value. We show …
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