Purpose This paper aims to study the effect of country-level perceptions of corruption on commercial banks’ lending … activity over the importance of loans and the quality of loan portfolios of banks in Europe. Design/methodology/approach The … from ORBIS and macroeconomic data from the World Bank. The sample is composed of 640 commercial banks in 42 European …

three large state-owned banks, introduced new governance structures, and brought in foreign strategic investors. However, it … patterns in lending from 1997 through 2004 to look for evidence of changing behavior of the large state-owned commercial banks … undifferentiated and banks do not appear to take enterprise profitability into account when making lending decisions. Controlling for …

This technical note assesses the reform of Spanish savings banks (SSBs). It provides a brief overview of the SSB …

Over the past decade, one popular way for Turkish banks to remove nonperforming loans (NPLs) from their balance sheets …, we compare banks included in the Corporate Governance Index (XCORP) with other banks. Our event-study results suggest … corporate governance. More important, the stocks of these banks are efficiently priced, while the non-XCORP banks have …