[fre] Cet article traite de la volonté affichée au cours de ces dix dernières années par les principales institutions bancaires de la planète de développer des activités de banques d’affaires à l’échelle mondiale. Cette industrie a de fait connu des phénomènes de concentration et...

This note tests the rational expectations-permanent income hypothesis for the six ASEAN countries using the methodology developed by Hall and Flavin. The statistical evidence rejects the hypothesis for each country except Singapore.

This paper investigates household access to consumer credit in the UK using information on 58,642 households between 2001 and 2009. Employing a treatment effects model and propensity score matching, we find that non-white households are less likely to have financing compared to white households....

This paper discusses the effects of small banks on economic growth. We first theoretically show that small banks operating at a regional level can spur local economic growth. As compared with big interregional banks, small regional banks are more effective in promoting local economic growth,...

This paper contributes to the bank efficiency literature through an application of recently developed random parameters models for stochastic frontier analysis. We estimate standard fixed and random effects models, and alternative specifications of random parameters models that accommodate...

National measures of competition and macroeconomic activity have been used by researchers in recent years to explain performance and risk differentials across banks. However, such measures may be inappropriate for banks which operate with a regional focus. In this paper we construct measures of...