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Does finance cause growth? Evidence from the origins of banking in Russia

Berkowitz, Daniel; Hoekstra, Mark; Schoors, Koen - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012

This paper examines the effect of banking on economic growth in modern Russia. To overcome simultaneity and selection …, we exploit regional banking variation induced by the creation of “specialized banks” (spetsbanks) in the last years of … uncorrelated with 15 predictors of future growth, including pre-banking income, education, anti-market sentiment, institutional …

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Learning from Crises

Thorat, Usha - eSocialSciences - 2009

that are so typical of market driven systems. [The 'Institute of Banking and Finance (IBF) Distinguished Speaker Series …

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Bank capital, adjustment and ownership: Evidence from China

Molyneux, Philip; Liu, Hong; Jiang, Chunxia - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2014

We investigate ownership effects on capital and adjustments speed to the target capital ratio in China from 2000 to 2012 and find that state-owned banks hold higher levels of capital than banks of other ownership types. Foreign banks are more highly capitalized than local non-state banks but...

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The Micro Financial Sector (Development and Regulation) Bill, 2007: Legislative Brief

Sanyal, Kaushiki - eSocialSciences - 2007

the sector and the regulator could lead to conflict of interest. 􀂐 Banks and deposit taking Non-Banking Financial …

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The Great Depression and the Great Recession: What have we Learned?

Bordo, Michael D - eSocialSciences - 2012

The Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and the Great Recession of 2007-2009 are now in the past. Again there was the debt crisis of 2010-11. During the worst of the recent financial crisis/Great Recession many observers made comparisons between that event and the Great Depression. The lecture...

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Banking on Limited Freedom

Mukherjee, Aruni - eSocialSciences - 2005

Successive finance ministers have been calling the public sector banks â€œto brace for a wave of consolidationâ€ to …

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Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Indian Banking

Rajan, S S; Reddy, K L N; Pandit, V N - eSocialSciences - 2011

This paper attempts to examine technical efficiency and productivity performance of Indian scheduled commercial banks, for the period 1979-2008. A model is constructed using multiple output/multiple input technology production frontier using semiparametric estimation methods. The endogenity of...

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Report of the Expert Committee on Licensing New Urban Co-operative Banks

RBI, Reserve Bank of India - eSocialSciences - 2011

With a view to increasing the coverage of banking services amongst local communities, it was proposed in the Annual … granting new urban co-operative banking licences under Section 22 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 (AACS). In the Second …

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Measuring systemic funding liquidity risk in the Russian banking system

Andrievskaya, Irina - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012

. This paper proposes a straightforward approach for estimating the systemic funding liquidity risk in a banking system and …

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State Aid and Competition in Banking: The Case of China in the Late Nineties

Cheng, Xiaoqiang; CAYSEELE, Patrick VAN - eSocialSciences - 2010

during the global financial crisis in 2008. To test the impact of state aid, a natural experiment in the banking sector in …

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