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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States
García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to … Social Survey (ESS), the American General Social Survey (GSS), and the International Social Survey Program (ISSP). Estimation … indeed more religious than the populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while …
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The domestic credit supply response to international bank deleveraging : is Asia different?
Aiyar, Shekhar; Jain Chandra, Sonali - 2012
During the global financial crisis, European banks contracted foreign claims on recipient economies sharply. This paper examines the impact of that deleveraging on credit supply in recipient economies, with a particular focus on Asia. Identification is achieved by exploiting heterogeneity in...
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Are Weak Banks Leading Credit Booms? Evidence from Emerging Europe
Igan, Deniz - 2008
-level data for central and eastern Europe and controlling for the feedback effect of credit growth on bank soundness. No evidence …
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Equity Returns in the Banking Sector in the Wake of the Great Recession and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Fund, International Monetary - 2012
This study finds that equity returns in the banking sector in the wake of the Great Recession and the European sovereign debt crisis have been driven mainly by weak growth prospects and heightened sovereign risk and to a lesser extent, by deteriorating funding conditions and investor sentiment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677547
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House Price Developments in Europe
Hilbers, Paul Louis Ceriel - 2008
House prices in Europe have shown diverging trends, and this paper seeks to explain these differences by analyzing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677654
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Distress in European Banks
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2009
identified late, solutions are much more costly. Until recently, Europe has seen only a small number of outright bank failures … of banking distress in Europe. We identify a set of indicators and thresholds that can help to distinguish sou …
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Regional Financial Interlinkages and Financial Contagion Within Europe
Ötker, Inci - 2009
This paper focuses on financial interlinkages within Europe and potential contagion channeled through these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677707
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Regional Financial Spillovers Across Europe
Sgherri, Silvia - 2009
The recent financial crisis raises important issues about the transmission of financial shocks across borders. In this paper, a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model is constructed to assess the relevance of international spillovers following a historical slowdown in U.S. equity prices. The...
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Does NGO Aid Go to the Poor? Empirical Evidence from Europe.
Yontcheva, Boriana - 2006
METHODOLOGY -- IV. RESULTS -- V. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES. …
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Idiosyncratic and Systemic Risk in the European Corporate Sector : A CDO Perspective
Lu, Yinqiu - 2006
Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. A BRIEF PRIMER ON COLLATERALIZED DEBT OBLIGATIONS -- III. DEFAULT PROBABILITY AND DEFAULT CORRELATION, IN STCDOS -- IV. IDIOSYNCRATIC AND SYSTEMIC RISK IN STCDO TRANCHES -- V. DATA AND EMPIRICAL FRAMEWORK -- VI. RESULTS -- VII. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES.
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