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Since bank credit lines are a major source of corporate funding, we examine the determinants of credit line usage with …
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6TThere are major difficulties associated with measurement of each of the four modes of services trade delivery as defined in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) : cross-border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence, and movement of natural persons. The...
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6TThere are major difficulties associated with measurement of each of the four modes of services trade delivery as defined in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) : cross-border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence, and movement of natural persons. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653186
This paper analyses the determinants of the probability of default (PD) of bank loans. We focus the discussion on the … role of a limited set of variables (collateral, type of lender and bank borrower relationship) while controlling for the … institutions over a complete business cycle (1988 to 2000) collected by the Bank of Spain's Credit Register (Central de Información …
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Using data on marginal interest rates of loan and deposit products by Spanish banks, we find that the level of interest rates on loans (deposits) across geographic markets decrease (increase) with the number of banks in each market, and that the level of interest rates on loans increases with...
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The paper studies the evolution and determinants of banking integration across European countries, including New Member States, with attention to the impact that the Euro might have on that process. It is the first time that banking integration is being studied using the data on international...
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In this paper we study the specialization of Spanish banks along two intertwined dimensions: size and ownership form. We find some interesting results at odds with the existing empirical literature. As commercial banks increase their size, they lend more to large borrowers but that is not the...
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The paper sets an accounting and behavioral framework from which we derive a reduced form equation to test income smoothing and capital management practices through loan loss provisions (PLL) by Spanish banks. Spain offers a unique environment to perform those tests because there are very...
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This paper contains estimates of physical and intangible (information technology, advertising and training) capital stock, together with capital, labor and externally provided input services, of Spanish commercial and saving banks in the period 1983 to 2003. Capital stocks are valued at...
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This paper investigates the relationship between credit market competition and the availability of bank credit for ….Therefore market power in credit markets and collateral appear as substitutes to increase the availability of bank finance under …
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