Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks’ lending techniques affect funding … to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of …

’s has a special approach for banks in developing countries and Russia in particular. The models help reveal the factors that …

We examine the effects of political connections on depositor discipline in a sample of Turkish banks. Banks with former … in power – less so if the former politician served as a minister. Banks with structural problems are more likely to …

excessive risk-taking by participating banks before, during, and after the 2008–2009 financial crisis. The existence of quantity …

previous papers, no significance difference is found for the average cost efficiency scores of banks for the two countries … during 2002-2006. How banks are ranked for efficiency depends upon the chosen model (input and output sets). An interesting … insight is the finding that most banks in both countries are below optimal size. …

diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … finds somewhat mixed results. Specifically, we find that banks’ performance tends to be non-monotonically related to their … decreased risk only up to a certain threshold. Additionally, when foreign ownership is either very high or very low, banks tend …

Chinese provinces over the period 1995–2003, we assess the impact of banks and non-bank financial institutions on local … economic growth. We argue that banks have had a larger impact than non-banks on local economic growth as they benefited earlier …

This paper provides micro and macroeconomic analysis of the economic role of banks in the Russian economy. Using a … financing. Econometric model put out the existence of liquidity providing activity of Russian banks. Even though the overall … banks in their liquidity providing role. …

position generated by the repeated recapitalization of the state banks. For software failure, we discuss possible social …