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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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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
adopted banking reforms allowing entry of foreign banks and more domestic participation in the syndicated loan market. As a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276389
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Agenda for Building a New Financial Market Architecture
Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661277
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Agenda for Building a New Financial Market Architecture
Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Since the summer of 2007, participants in financial markets have been confronted by a crisis of their own making. In order to prevent the recurrence of a similar crisis in the future, the G-20 nations, at their finance summit in Washington on 15 November 2008, resolved to "ensure that all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128100
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Macroeconomic Uncertainty and Bank Lending: The Case of Ukraine
Talavera, Oleksandr; Tsapin, Andriy; Zholud, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Our study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and macroeconomic uncertainty. We develop a dynamic model … of a bank's value maximization that results in a negative relationship between loan to capital ratio and macroeconomic … in uncertainty is not uniform and depends on bank-specific characteristics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068643
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Banking Competition, Good or Bad?: The Case of Promoting Micro and Small Enterprise Finance in Kazakhstan
Schäfer, Dorothea; Siliverstovs, Boriss; Terberger, Eva - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
how many MSE banking units optimally should be created and supported in a certain region. Our research aims at shedding … the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for Kazakhstan, and investigate which strategy contributes more to … the overall program's success: a strategy of building up several competing banking units targeted at MSE lending or a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068666
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011196045
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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
We explore the impact of concentration in the banking markets on the capital structure of publicly quoted non …-financial firms in the EU15 over the period 1997- 2005, an era marked by intensive merger activity in the banking sector. Our main … finding is a negative and significant relationship between the degree of concentration of European bank markets and the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069147
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Bank Market Structure and Firm Capital Structure
Baert, Lieven; Vennet, Rudi Vander - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
We explore the impact of concentration in the banking markets on the capital structure of publicly quoted non …-financial firms in the EU15 over the period 1997- 2005, an era marked by intensive merger activity in the banking sector. Our main … finding is a negative and significant relationship between the degree of concentration of European bank markets and the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896118