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Political cycles and bank lending in Russia

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Schoors, Koen; Solanko, Laura; … - 2020

State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the re-election odds of incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their lending before presidential elections during 2004-2019, a period...

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European banks are not immune to national elections

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Kerola, Eeva; Weill, Laurent - 2024

We investigate whether European banks adjust their loan prices and volumes of new lending in the months running up to major national elections. Using a unique dataset that draws on data covering some 250 banksin 19 Eurozone countries from 2010 to 2020 at monthly frequency, and that includes...

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Does bank competition reduce cost of credit? : cross-country evidence from Europe

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Shamshur, Anastasiya; Weill, Laurent - 2016

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Trust in banks

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Hasan, Iftekhar; Weill, Laurent - 2016

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Does experience of banking crises affect trust in banks?

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Kerola, Eeva; Weill, Laurent - 2019

This paper investigates how past experience with banking crises influences an individual's trust in banks. We combine data on banking crises for the period 1970-2014 with individual data on trust in banks for 52 countries. We find that experiencing a banking crisis diminishes a person's trust in...

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Trusting banks in China

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Weill, Laurent - 2017

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Bank profitability and economic growth

Klein, Paul-Olivier; Weill, Laurent - 2018

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Persistent and transient inefficiency : explaining the low efficiency of Chinese big banks

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Klein, Paul-Olivier; Weill, Laurent - 2018

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Does money buy credit? firm-level evidence on bribery and bank debt

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Kochanova, Anna; Weill, Laurent - 2014

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Does corruption hamper bank lending? : macro and micro evidence

Weill, Laurent - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …

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