Finger, Harald; Hesse, Heiko - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
This paper empirically examines the demand for commercial bank deposits in Lebanon, a regional financial center. With … importance of the external variables. At the micro level, we find that in addition, bank-specific variables, such as the … perceived riskiness of individual banks, their liquidity buffers, loan exposure, and interest margins, bear a significant …