How do banks react to increased interbank competition?Recent banking theory offers conflicting predictions about the …

structure of loan returns can have signi.cant in.uence on the cost of issuing equity since it a.ects the variance of a banks …

allocation in emerging markets. We investigate the impact of the mode of foreign entry (greenfield or takeover) on banks …

and more use of ratings of the reliability of Russian banks, i.e., their ability to meet interest and repayment … for the agency ratings.We find that agency and expert ratings of virtual banks are largely in line with each other, but … expert ratings.Moreover, we find some surprising differences between expert ratings of real banks and expert ratings of …

We consider a situation in which a group of banks consider connecting their Automated TellerMachines (ATMs) in a … network, so that the banks customers may use ATMs of any bank in the network.The problem studied is that of allocating the … total transaction costs arising in the network, among the participating banks.The situation is modeled as a cooperative game …

In this paper we use credit rating data from two Swedish banks to elicit evidence on these banks’ loan monitoring … the Swedish credit bureau. We test the banks’ abilility to forecast the credit bureau’s ratings and vice versa. We show … that one of the banks has a superior predictive ability relative to the credit bureau. This is evidence that bank credit …

of institutions - banks and non-bank financial institutions - have a (significantly different) impact on local economic …

firms.We study the effect on loan conditions of geographical distance between firms, the lending bank, and all other banks … with the distance between the firm and competing banks.The effect of distance on the loan rate is statistically significant …

We propose a new method for measuring the quality of banks credit portfolios. This method makes use of information …