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The Influence of Bank Ownership on Credit Supply: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis
Fungacova, Zuzana; Herrala, Risto; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2011
This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where … original approach based on stochastic frontier analysis. Our findings suggest bank ownership affected credit supply during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645239
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Foreign bank lending and information asymmetries in China
Pessarossi, Pierre; Godlewski, Christophe J.; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2010
bank participation, suggesting that domestic banks are less cautious in their risk management. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008774235
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Political cycles and bank lending in Russia
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Schoors, Koen; Solanko, Laura; … - 2020
State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the re-election odds of incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their lending before presidential elections during 2004-2019, a period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614230
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European banks are not immune to national elections
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Kerola, Eeva; Weill, Laurent - 2024
We investigate whether European banks adjust their loan prices and volumes of new lending in the months running up to major national elections. Using a unique dataset that draws on data covering some 250 banksin 19 Eurozone countries from 2010 to 2020 at monthly frequency, and that includes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483919
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Does corruption hamper bank lending? Macro and micro evidence
Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771115
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How corruption affects bank lending in Russia
Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2008
The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major … regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to perform this investigation. Our main estimations show that corruption … hampers bank lending in Russia. We investigate whether this negative role of corruption is influenced by the degree of bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190671
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Asymmetric Information and Loan Spreads in Russia: Evidence from Syndicated Loans
Fungacova, Zuzana; Godlewski, Christophe J.; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2009
This paper considers whether local bank participation exerts an impact on the spreads for syndicated loans in Russia … variables including information on local bank participation and the characteristics of loans and borrowers. Unlike earlier … local presence may influence a foreign bank’s monitoring ability and access to information about borrowers. We observe no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005034669
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Does corruption hamper bank lending? Macro and micro evidence
Weill, Laurent - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of corruption in bank lending. Corruption is expected to hamper bank …. Nevertheless the similarities between the consequences for bank lending of law enforcement and corruption are misleading, as they … consider only judiciary corruption. Corruption can also occur in lending and may then be beneficial for bank lending via bribes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148578
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Asymmetric information and loan spreads in Russia: evidence from syndicated loans
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Godlewski, Christophe J.; Weill, … - 2009
This paper considers whether local bank participation exerts an impact on the spreads for syndicated loans in Russia … variables including information on local bank participation and the characteristics of loans and borrowers. Unlike earlier … local presence may influence a foreign bank's monitoring ability and access to information about borrowers. We observe no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148582
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The Influence of Bank Ownership on Credit Supply: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Herrala, Risto; Weill, Laurent - 2011
This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where … original approach based on stochastic frontier analysis. Our findings suggest bank ownership affected credit supply during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148653