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Non-price competitiveness of exports from emerging countries
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - 2012
that adjusts for changes in the set of competitors (variety) and changes in non-price factors (quality in a broad sense …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012148674
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Non-price competitiveness of exports from emerging countries
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2012
that adjusts for changes in the set of competitors (variety) and changes in non-price factors (quality in a broad sense …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575176
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Banks vs. markets: Are banks more effective in facilitating sustainability?
Newton, David P.; Ongena, Steven; Xie, Ru; Zhao, Binru - 2022
Is bank- versus market-based financing different in its attitudes towards Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risk? Using a novel sample covering 3,783 U.S. public firms from 2007 to 2020, we study how firm-level ESG risk affects its financing outcomes. We find that companies with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191631
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The vanishing interest income of Chinese banks
Kauko, Karlo - 2020
income, loan quality problems may erode the gross interest income of banks. Using stochastic frontier analysis, we estimate … the interest income of a hypothetical profit-maximis-ing Chinese bank with no credit quality problems. Taking the … Chi-nese banks. Our results uncover a substantial weakening in the quality of Chinese bank loan portfo-lios in 2016. Big …
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Political cycles and bank lending in Russia
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Schoors, Koen; Solanko, Laura; … - 2020
quality the following year, indicating the lending increase was not driven by higher growth prospects or some positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614230
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Sex, language, and financial inclusion
Osei-Tutu, Francis; Weill, Laurent - 2020
Reference to gender in language can lead individuals to draw distinctions between genders and re-inforce traditional views of gender roles. To test our hypothesis that language gender-marking exerts an influence on the gender gap in financial inclusion, we draw on data for 117 countries in the...
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Central bank independence and systemic risk
Andrieș, Alin Marius; Podpiera, Anca Maria; Sprincean, Nicu - 2020
We investigate the relationship of central bank independence and banks' systemic risk measures. Our results support the case for central bank independence, revealing that central bank independence has a robust, negative, and significant impact on the contribution and exposure of a bank to...
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The failure of Chinese peer-to-peer lending platforms: Finance and politics
He, Qing; Li, Xiaoyang - 2020
We investigate the influence of financial and political factors on peer-to-peer (P2P) platform failures in China's online lending market. Using a competing risk model for platform survival, we show that large platforms, platforms with listed firms as large shareholders, and platforms with better...
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Does bank efficiency affect the bank lending channel in China?
Fungáčová, Zuzana; Kerola, Eeva; Weill, Laurent - 2021
This work examines the impact of bank efficiency on the bank lending channel in China. Using a sample of 175 Chinese banks over the period 2006-2017, we investigate how the reaction of the loan supply to monetary policy actions depends on a bank's efficiency. While bank efficiency does not exert...
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City commercial banks and credit allocation: Firm-level evidence
Kang, Shulong; Dong, Jianfeng; Yu, Haiyue; Cao, Jin; … - 2021
% increase in debt funding and more than 100-basis-point drop in interest costs despite their inferior credit quality. The debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614253