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Banking Market Liberalization and Bank Performance: the Role of Entry Modes

Thi, Ngoc-Anh Vo - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2009

liberalization occurred in each country. Bank performance is reflected by accounting measures of profitability, net interest margin …, and operating costs. The results show a very limited effect of the entry of Greenfield banks on domestic banking market in … economies still hesitant to liberalize their banking markets. …

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Does the Entry Mode of Foreign Banks Matter for Bank Efficiency? Evidence from the Czech Republic,Hungary, and Poland

Thi, Ngoc-Anh Vo; Vencappa, Dev - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2008

This paper investigates the impact of specific modes of entry of foreign banks, i.e. greenfield investment versus merger and acquisition, on bank performance in three transition economies – the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. We use stochastic frontier analysis to model and measure the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529025

Sophisticated Discipline in Nascent Deposit Markets: Evidence from Post-Communist Russia

Karas, Alexei; Pyle, William; Schoors, Koen - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

unobserved bank-level risk. …

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Consolidation, Scale Economies and Technological Change in Japanese Banking

Tadesse, Solomon - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

The paper examines the technological structure of the Japanese banking sector before the onset of the banking crisis … concentrated banking structure might be consistent with public interest. …

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THE COST STRUCTURE OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS IN EASTERN EUROPE AND CENTRAL ASIA

Hartarska, Valentina; Caudill, Steven B.; Gropper, Daniel M. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

Microfinance institutions are important, particularly in developing countries, because they expand the frontier of financial intermediation by providing loans to those traditionally excluded from formal financial markets. This paper presents the first systematic statistical examination of the...

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Ailing Mothers, Healthy Daughters? Contagion in the Central European Banking Sector

Fiala, Tomas; Havranek, Tomas - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

- dependencies in downward risk in the banking sector of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia during 1994-2013. In …Foreign-dominated banking sectors, such as those prevalent in Central and Eastern Europe, are susceptible to two major … sources of systemic risk: (i) linkages between local banks and (ii) linkages between a foreign mother bank and its local …

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Bank Efficiency in Transitional Countries: Sensitivity to Stochastic Frontier Design

Irsova, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

This article provides an empirical insight on the heterogeneity in the estimates of banking efficiency produced by the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001048

Consolidation, Scale Economics and Technological Change in Japanese Banking

Tadesse, Solomon - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

The paper examines the technological structure of the Japanese banking sector before the onset of the banking crisis … concentrated banking structure might be consistent with public interest. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784641

THE DEPENDENCE OF CEECs ON FOREIGN BANK CLAIMS: DIRECT AND INDIRECT RISKS OF CAPITAL WITHDRAWAL

Brana, Sophie; Lahet, Delphine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

foreign bankers. We show that this situation leaves these countries open to two types of financial risk, which have grown … and the risk of sudden withdrawal of capital. The second, which is indirect, is associated with the risk of regional …

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Bank Discrimination in Transition Economies: Ideology, Information or Incentives?

Brandt, Loren; Li, Hongbin - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

We study bank discrimination against private firms in transition countries. Theoretically, we show that banks may discriminate for non-profit reasons, but this discrimination diminishes with a bank’s incentives and human capital. Employing matching bank-firm data from China, we empirically...

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