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China employs a unique foreign bank entry model. Instead of allowing full foreign control of domestic banks, foreign … investors are expected to commit to bank corporate governance improvement and new technology support. In this context, the paper … examines the effect of foreign strategic investors on Chinese bank performance. Based on a unique data set of bank ownership …
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bank managers and regulators in China as well as in other emerging economies. …This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks …
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Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … to benefit more from being diversified. This analysis provides important strategic and policy implications for bank … managers and regulators in Russia as well as in other emerging economies. …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … size of which depends to an extent on the bank’s ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …
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The recent financial crisis emphasised the need for effective financial stability analyses and tools for detecting systemic risk. This paper looks at assessment of banking sector resilience through stress testing. We argue such analyses are valuable even in emerging economies that suffer from...
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This paper studies the economic impact of the current global economic downturn on the household sector. Household budgets can be negatively affected by declines in nominal wages and increases in unemployment. We empirically test this effect for the small open emerging economy. As a result of a...
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The Central European banking industry is dominated by foreign-owned banks. During the recent crisis, for the first time since the transition, foreign parent companies were frequently in a worse financial condition than their subsidiaries. This situation created a unique opportunity to study new...
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profitability, asset diversification and liquidity risk, but negatively influenced by bank market power. Capital ratios typically co …
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The offshore renminbi (CNH) exchange rate is the exchange rate of the Chinese currency transacted outside China. We study the CNH exchange rate dynamics and its links with onshore exchange rates. Using a specialized microstructure dataset, we find that CNH is significantly affected by its order...
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This paper applies an analytical paradigm of institutional economics to the transition of the Russian banking sector, focusing on the interplay between ownership change and institutional change. We find that the state’s withdrawal from commercial banking has been inconsistent and limited in...
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