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Foreign Banks and Credit Stability in Central and Eastern Europe: friends or foes? A panel data analysis

Haas, Ralph de; Lelyveld, Iman van - EconWPA - 2003

We study whether foreign and domestic banks in Central and Eastern Europe have reacted differently to business cycle conditions and host country banking crises. Our unique panel dataset comprises data of more than 300 banks for the period 1993-2000, with detailed information on bank ownership....

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Real exhange rate misalignment in Hungary: a fractionally integrated=20 threshold model

DUFRENOT, Gilles; GRIMAUD, Elisabeth; Eug=E9nie LATIL; … - EconWPA - 2003

This paper proposes an estimate of the Hungarian real exchange rate=20 misalignments using fractionally integrated threshold models (FI-STARMA and=20= FI-TARMA=20 processes). This allows us to simultaneously take into account two types of=20 persistence: a long memory behavior due to the...

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How Important Are Foreign Banks in European Transition Countries? A Comparative Analysis

Bol, Hanneke; Haan, Jakob de; Scholtens, Bert; Haas, … - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses the development of the banking sector in twelve transition countries. Foreign banks have become major players in the financial system of these countries. Still, foreign bank presence and financial development in general vary considerably between these economies. Distance from...

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The Travails of Current Macroeconomic and Exchange Rate Management in China: The Complications of Switching to a New Growth Engine

Woo, Wing Thye - EconWPA - 2003

Just when China’s leaders receive conflicting signals of “overheating” and “below-potential growth”, they encounter … challenges have their roots in China’s inadequate marketization and continued discrimination against the domestic private sector … themselves into nonperforming loans. In partially-reformed China, public-directed investments via the state enterprises tend to …

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Changing boundaries and structure of a technological system: lessons from UK retail banking

Consoli, Davide - EconWPA - 2005

This article investigates the factors that have induced and shaped the process of industry evolution of banking in the United Kingdom and, in particular, the reorganization of the retail payments system. It will look at how the effects of technical progress within a changing regulatory framework...

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Plastic Clashes: Competition among Closed and Open Systems in the Credit Card Industry.

Manenti, Fabio M.; Somma, Ernesto - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses market competition between two different types of credit card platforms: not-for-profit associations and proprietary systems. The main focus is on the role of the interchange fee set by not-for-profit platforms. We show that when the interchange fee is set so as to maximise...

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Capital Regulation and Credit Risk Taking : Empirical Evidence from Banks in Emerging Market Economies

Godlewski, Christophe - EconWPA - 2004

The primary purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between bank capital and credit risk taking in emerging market economies. We also investigate the influence of several regulatory, institutional and legal features on the relationship between risk and capital. We apply a...

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Boom In, Bust Out: Young Households and the Housing Price Cycle

Ortalo-Magne, Francois; Rady, Sven - EconWPA - 1998

The UK experienced a major residential real estate boom-bust cycle from the mid-Eighties to the mid-Nineties, accompanied by unprecedented shifts in the owner occupancy rate of young households. Previous empirical analyses have pointed toward income changes and financial deregulation as the...

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Evolution and Present Status of Bulgarian Card Market

Bojinov, Bojidar - EconWPA - 2003

Bulgaria is a small South-eastern European country with a population of 8 million inhabitants in economic transition. During the bank crisis (1996-97) about 1/3 of all banks went bankrupt. On 5 July 1997, the Bulgarian government, jointly with IMF, introduced the Currency Board Arrangement,...

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Fairly Priced Deposit Insurance and Bank Charter Policy

Craine, Roger - EconWPA - 1996

The thrust of current deposit insurance reform--risk-based insurance premiums and capital requirements--is an effort to price deposit insurance more fairly. Fairly pricing deposit insurance eliminates inequitable wealth transfers, but it does not lead to an efficient equilibrium. This paper...

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