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By adopting a difference-in-differences specification combined with propensity score matching, I provide evidence using the microdata of German banks that stateowned savings banks have lent less than credit cooperatives during the COVID-19 crisis. In particular, the weaker lending effects of...
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We document a strong political cycle in bank credit and industry outcomes in Turkey. In line with theories of tactical …
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This study examines whether state-owned banks face political pressure and whether the improvement in political institutions alleviates this pressure. The theory of political benefits argues that politicians use state-owned banks for political purposes such as obtaining and maintaining political...
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Africa region by exploring the role of bank-specific and macroeconomic factors, particularly in the period of the global … the level of non-performing loans is more sensitive to bank specifics than macroeconomic factors. When it comes to …
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By adopting a difference-in-differences specification combined with propensity score matching, I provide evidence using the microdata of German banks that stateowned savings banks have lent less than credit cooperatives during the COVID-19 crisis. In particular, the weaker lending effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013383408
We investigate the implications of government versus private ownership for bank minority shareholders. Specifically, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839103
We document a strong political cycle in bank credit and industry outcomes in Turkey. In line with theories of tactical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493029
This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and reassesses the links between state-ownership of banks and each of … financial development, economic growth, financial stability, bank performance, liquidity creation, and lending cyclicality …-ownership but that there is no evidence that high state-ownership predicts banking crises. Focusing on bank performance, the paper …
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This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low … reversed these trends. At the country level, the relationship between bank ownership and each of GDP growth and financial depth …. Bank-level regressions show that state-owned banks are less profitable and have a higher share of non-performing loans than …
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We provide evidence that German savings banks - where local politicians are by law involved in their management - systematically adjust lending policies in response to local electoral cycles. The different timing of county elections across states and the existence of a control group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011285313