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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 corruption hamper bank lending? Macro and micro evidence
Weill, Laurent - In: Empirical Economics 41 (2011) 1, pp. 25-42
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Does Collateral Help Mitigate Adverse Selection? A Cross-Country Analysis
Godlewski, Christophe; Weill, Laurent - In: Journal of Financial Services Research 40 (2011) 1, pp. 49-78
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Le rôle des garanties dans les prêts des banques françaises
Blazy, Régis; Weill, Laurent - In: Revue d'économie politique 116 (2006) 4, pp. 501-522
use. We use a dataset of 564 bank loans on French firms, which contains the full information on type and value of …
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Measuring Excessive Risk-Taking in Banking
Podpiera, Jiri; Weill, Laurent - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 60 (2010) 4, pp. 294-306
use the portfolio approach to assess the optimal risk-return combination of a bank’s portfolio, based on data for 32 … categories of loans. It provides a benchmark for the optimality of the bank’s portfolio. The authors apply this method on an …
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Foreign bank lending and information asymmetries in China: Empirical evidence from the syndicated loan market
Pessarossi, Pierre; Godlewski, Christophe J.; Weill, Laurent - In: Journal of Asian Economics 23 (2012) 4, pp. 423-433
This paper considers whether information asymmetries affect the willingness of foreign banks to participate in syndicated loans to corporate borrowers in China. We analyze how ownership concentration, which influences information asymmetries in the relationship between the borrower and the...
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Do capital requirements affect bank efficiency? Evidence from China
Pessarossi, Pierre; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2013
This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … size of which depends to an extent on the bank’s ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …
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Is bank competition detrimental to efficiency? Evidence from China
Fungácová, Zuzana; Pessarossi, Pierre; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012
This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …
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Is bank competition detrimental to efficiency? Evidence from China
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Pessarossi, Pierre; Weill, Laurent - In: China Economic Review 27 (2013) C, pp. 121-134
This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065781