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Local Banking and Local Economic Growth in Italy: Some Panel Evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Colli, Stefano Di; Salvo, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the contribution of local banking to local economic growth (i.e. at county level - the Italian "province") in Italy. A comprehensive dataset is used, which includes control variables for social capital and human capital as well as indicators of the quality of...
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How Has the Global Financial Crisis Affected Syndicated Loan Terms in Emerging Markets?: Evidence from China
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Lodh, Suman; Nandy, Monomita - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
This paper examines the impact of the recent global financial crisis on the cost of debt capital (syndicated loans) in a leading emerging market, namely China, using difference-in-differences and GARCH approaches. Before the crisis China adopted banking reforms allowing entry of foreign banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276389
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Volatility Patterns of CDS, Bond and Stock Markets before and during the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Major Financial Institutions
Belke, Ansgar; Gokus, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
This study is motivated by the development of credit-related instruments and signals of stock price movements of large banks during the recent financial crisis. What is common to most of the empirical studies in this field is that they concentrate on modeling the conditional mean. However,...
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Uncertainty Determinants of Corporate Liquidity
Baum, Christopher F.; Caglayan, Mustafa; Stephan, Andreas; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of non-financial firms' liquid assets and uncertainty. We develop a partial equilibrium model of precautionary demand for liquid assets showing that firms alter their liquidity ratio in response to changes in either macroeconomic or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963667
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Firm Leverage
Baum, Christopher F.; Stephan, Andreas; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper investigates the link between the optimal level of nonfinancial firms' leverage and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a structural model of a firm's value maximization problem that predicts that as macroeconomic un-certainty increases the firm will decrease its optimal level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963696
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Bank Market Structure and Firm Capital Structure
Baert, Lieven; Vennet, Rudi Vander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
finding is a negative and significant relationship between the degree of concentration of European bank markets and the market … bank conduct. This support for the market power hypothesis indicates that further measures are needed to make bank lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896118
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Why Do Firms Switch Their Main Bank?: Theory and Evidence from Ukraine
Stephan, Andreas; Tsapin, Andriy; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
We examine why firms change their main bank and how this affects loans, interest payments and firm performance after … switching. Using unique firm-bank matched Ukrainian data, the treatment effect estimates suggest that more transparent and … riskier companies are more likely to switch their main bank. Importantly, main bank power, measured by equity holdings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068870
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Bank Market Structure and Firm Capital Structure
Baert, Lieven; Vennet, Rudi Vander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
finding is a negative and significant relationship between the degree of concentration of European bank markets and the market … bank conduct. This support for the market power hypothesis indicates that further measures are needed to make bank lending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069147
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How Do Insured Deposits Affect Bank Risk?: Evidence from the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act
Lambert, Claudia; Noth, Felix; Schüwer, Ulrich - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
$100,000 to $250,000 per depositor and bank. For some banks, the amount of insured deposits increased significantly; for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128840
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Loan Loss Provision: Some Empirical Evidence for Italian Banks
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Alessi, Matteo; Colli, Stefano Di - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015
This paper uses data from a panel of more than 400 Italian banks for the period 2001 – 2012 to examine the main determinants of loan loss provision (LLP), which are classified as either discretionary (income smoothing, capital management,signalling) or non-discretionary (related to the...
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