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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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Competition is claimed to be beneficial in development projects promoting micro and small enterprise finance although … the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for Kazakhstan, and investigate which strategy contributes more to …
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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. …
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$100,000 to $250,000 per depositor and bank. For some banks, the amount of insured deposits increased significantly; for …
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(Gabaix, 2011) for the banking sector, introducing Bertrand competition and heterogeneous banks charging variable markups …. Using this framework, we show conditions under which idiosyncratic shocks to bank lending can generate aggregate … sector for many countries is indeed granular, as the right tail of the bank size distribution follows a power law. We then …
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During the last years, gravity equations have leapt from the trade literature over into the literature on financial markets. Martin and Rey (2004) were the first to provide a theoretical model for cross-border asset trade, yielding a structural gravity equation that could be tested empirically....
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Government interventions into the financial system in the form of bail out operations or liquidity assistance are often justified with the systemic importance of large banks for the real economy. In this paper, we test whether idiosyncratic shocks to loan growth at large banks have effects on...
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granular effects: if markets are very concentrated in terms of the size distribution of banks, idiosyncratic shocks at the bank … of itself, and it may also influence concentration in banking and thus the impact of bank-specific shocks for the … micro-macro panel dataset. Our research has three main findings: First, bank-level shocks significantly impact on GDP …
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During the last years, gravity equations have leapt from the trade literature over into the literature on financial markets. Martin and Rey (2004) were the first to provide a theoretical model for cross-border asset trade, yielding a structural gravity equation that could be tested empirically....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661271
Government interventions into the financial system in the form of bail out operations or liquidity assistance are often justified with the systemic importance of large banks for the real economy. In this paper, we test whether idiosyncratic shocks to loan growth at large banks have effects on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010661273