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Using both bank- and country-level data on banking sectors from 70 countries over the period 1992-2006, this paper empirically investigates the joint home- and host-country effects of banking market structure, macroeconomic condition, governance, and changes in bank supervision on foreign bank...
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In Germany a public discussion on the power of banks has been going on for decades now with the term power having at least two meanings. On the one hand, it denotes the power of banks to control public corporations through direct shareholdings or the exercise of proxy votes this is the power of...
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We investigate the impact of local banking market concentration on small and medium-sized enterprises' access to finance in Ukraine, as an under-researched case of a country where crime and corruption rates are high. We combine firm-level observations from the EBRD's BEEPS survey with unique,...
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We examine the impact of bank competition on the industrial structure using a city-industry level dataset during 2005-2009 in China. We find that bank competition increases the number of firms per capita and decreases average firm size in industries with higher external financial dependence....
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We show that U.S. banks price deposits almost uniformly across their branches and that this pricing practice is crucial …
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We show that U.S. banks price deposits almost uniformly across their branches and that this pricing practice is crucial …
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efficiency and profitability of banks. This study aims to examine the impact of the introduction of two major regulatory changes … performance, that is, profitability and efficiency. Considering bank size, the results show a diverse impact of regulation on bank … performance. Regarding large- and medium-sized banks, regulation positively affects both efficiency and profitability, whereas …
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This paper analyzes efficiency and profitability in the Swiss banking sector over the period 1997-2019. We find strong … evidence for scale economies: for most banks in the sample, efficiency and profitability increase with bank size. Using an … profitability is likely causal. Scale economies have been more pronounced since 2010 than in the years prior to the global financial …
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We assess the effects on the welfare of corporate borrowers of the recent wave of bank consolidations in the United States that has produced a small number of very large banks. Our evidence from a sample of more than 3,000 commercial borrowers from banks involved in large mergers indicates that...
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Using the stochastic frontier approach and a panel dataset of retail banks, this paper assesses the cost efficiency of the banking sector in Hong Kong. The average cost inefficiency during the period 1992-2005 is found to be about 15% to 29% of observed total costs, which is largely in line with...
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