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Measurement of capital stock and input services of Spanish banks
Martín-Oliver, Alfredo; Salas-Fumás, Vicente; … - Banco de España - 2007
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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Do dynamic provisions reduce income smoothing using loan Loss provisions?
Pérez, Daniel; Salas-Fumás, Vicente; Saurina, Jesús - Banco de España - 2011
Spanish banks had to set aside a countercyclical loan loss provision during the period 2000 2004. The amount of such provision as well as the allowance accumulated had to be disclosed by banks. The former creates a natural experiment to test whether banks smooth earnings to mislead investors and...
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Why do spanish firms rarely use the bankruptcy system? The role of the mortgage institution
García-Posada, Miguel; Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S. - Banco de España - 2012
the Spanish bankruptcy system relative to that of an alternative insolvency institution, the mortgage system, and the …
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Insolvency institutions and efficiency: the Spanish case
García-Posada, Miguel - Banco de España - 2013
, namely the mortgage system, mean that firms and their creditors mainly deal with credit provision and eventual insolvency … through the latter. However, in order to use the mortgage system, some firms must overinvest in capital assets (real estate …, equipment) since those are the assets that can be pledged as mortgage collateral. This overinvestment leads to productive …
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Are there alternatives to bankruptcy? a study of small business distress in Spain
García-Posada, Miguel; Mora-Sanguinetti, Juan S. - Banco de España - 2013
main alternative procedure, the mortgage foreclosure; (ii) personal bankruptcy law is unattractive to the individual debtor …
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Firm-specific factors influencing the selection of accounting options provided by the IFRS: Empirical evidence from Spanish market
Aledo, Juana; García-Martínez, Fernando; Diazaraque, … - Banco de España - 2009
It is generally accepted that International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) promote a "true and fair" presentation of financial statements. The improvement of the quality of financial reporting helps investors, bankers and regulators make better decisions. Spanish GAAP, on the other hand,...
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Why did high productivity growth of banks precede the financial crisis?
Martín-Oliver, Alfredo; Ruano, Sonia; Salas-Fumás, Vicente - Banco de España - 2012
The observed high levels of banks’ operating efficiency, profi ts and market values in the years before the financial crisis raise reasonable doubts about the information content of conventional performance measures for the accurate assessment of the efficiency of banking intermediation. In...
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Measuring bank competition in China: A comparison of new versus conventional approaches applied to loan markets
Xu, Bing; Rixtel, Adrian van; Leuvensteijn, Michiel van - Banco de España - 2014
Since the 1980s, important and progressive reforms have profoundly reshaped the structure of the Chinese banking system. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional...
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The distribution of debt across euro area countries: the role of individual characteristics, institutions and credit conditions
Bover, Olympia; Casado, Jose Maria; Villanueva, Ernesto; … - Banco de España - 2013
the main mortgage. Second, we examine the role of legal and economic institutions in accounting for these differences. We … youngest group of households borrow lower amounts (conditional on borrowing), and the mortgage interest rates paid by low …
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The effect of foreclosure regulation: Evidence for the US mortgage market at state level
Vicente, Fernando López - Banco de España - 2013
on default rates at state level in the US mortgage market. Using panel data techniques, we find a statistically …
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