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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...
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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...
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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
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
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
This paper addresses the relationship between bank competition and efficiency by computing Lerner indices and cost … panel estimator framework to evaluate the sign and direction of causality between them. We observe no increase in bank … efficiency. This suggests that measures to increase bank competition in the Chinese context are not detrimental to efficiency. …
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This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank effieciency. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148714
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
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
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