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Why do large firms go for Islamic loans?
Weill, Laurent; Godlewski, Christophe - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012
conventional syndicated loans from countries from the Middle East and from Southeast Asia for the period 2001-2009, testing … loans are not associated with a different default risk than conventional loans. We identify three country-level determinants … as potential driving forces expanding the preference for Islamic loans. The strongest determinant is religiosity, i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010541047
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Non-price competitiveness of exports from emerging countries
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - 2012
This analysis of global competitiveness of emerging market economies accounts for non-price aspects of competitiveness. Building on the methodology pioneered by Feenstra (1994) and Broda and Weinstein (2006), we construct an export price index that adjusts for changes in the set of competitors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148674
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What drives the market share changes? Price versus non-price factors
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - 2013
The paper proposes a theoretical framework to explain gains and losses in export market shares by their price and non-price determinants. Starting from a demand-side model à la Armington (1969), we relax several restrictive assumptions to evaluate the contribution of unobservable changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148704
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Non-price competitiveness of exports from emerging countries
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012
This analysis of global competitiveness of emerging market economies accounts for non-price aspects of competitiveness. Building on the methodology pioneered by Feenstra (1994) and Broda and Weinstein (2006), we construct an export price index that adjusts for changes in the set of competitors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575176
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What drives the market share changes? Price versus non-price factors
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2013
The paper proposes a theoretical framework to explain gains and losses in export market shares by their price and non-price determinants. Starting from a demand-side model à la Armington (1969), we relax several restrictive assumptions to evaluate the contribution of unobservable changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686949
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The politics of bank failures in Russia
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Karas, Alexei; Solanko, Laura; … - 2022
Russia has witnessed a high number of bank failures over the last two decades. Using monthly data for 2002-2020, spanning four election cycles, we test the hypothesis that bank failures are less likely before presidential elections. We find that bank failures are less likely to occur in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013408687
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Trade conflicts and credit supply spillovers: Evidence from the nobel peace prize trade shock
Cao, Jin; Dinger, Valeriya; Juelsrud, Ragnar Enger; … - 2022
the performance of loans to salmon producers, which drove highly exposed banks to increase their loan loss provisions and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013432938
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Managing bank liquidity hoarding during uncertain times: The role of board gender diversity
Davydov, Denis; Garanina, Tatiana; Weill, Laurent - 2022
This paper examines the effect of executive board gender diversity on the relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world, has a high share of women on bank executive boards....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013432941
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Regional favoritism in access to credit: Just believe it
Osei-Tutu, Francis; Weill, Laurent - 2023
fewer hurdles in applying for loans. We find no evidence, however, of preferential lending from banks to firms in leader …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000393
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BigTech credit and monetary policy transmission: Micro-level evidence from China
Huang, Yiping; Li, Xiang; Qiu, Han; Yu, Changhua - 2023
This paper studies monetary policy transmission through BigTech and traditional banks. By comparing business loans made …
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