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The performance of banks in the MENA region during the global financial crisis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Lodh, Suman; Nandy, Monomita - 2016
This paper examines the impact of the global financial crisis on the banking sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, as well as the main determinants of the profitability of both domestic and foreign banks. The empirical findings suggest that during the crisis the former...
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Spillovers from systemic bank defaults
Mink, Mark; Haan, Jakob de - 2014
We examine to what extent banks' stock market values during the 2007-2012 financial crisis were driven by increases in the default risk of banks designated as globally systemically important by the Financial Stability Board. We find that bank market values hardly respond to changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354063
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International reserves before and after the global crisis : is there no end to hoarding?
Aizenman, Joshua; Cheung, Yin-Wong; Itō, Hiro - 2015
We evaluate the impact of the global financial crisis (GFC) and recent structural changes in the patterns of hoarding international reserves (IR). We confirm that the determinants of IR hoarding evolve with developments in the global economy. During the pre-GFC period of 1999-2006, gross saving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010490278
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Financial stability in Europe : banking and sovereign risk
Brůha, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen - 2017
We analyze the link between banking sector quality and sovereign risk in the whole European Union over 1999–2014. We employ four different indicators of sovereign risk (including market- and opinion-based assessments), a rich set of theoretically and empirically motivated banking sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646829
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Global and regional financial integration in emerging Asia : evidence from stock markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; You, Kefei - 2017
This paper employs a price-based measure of integration, namely stock return differentials between ten emerging Asian economies and the US (as an indicator of global integration), as well as Japan and the Asian region (as two alternative indicators of regional integration), to test for mean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654611
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Dynamics of first-time patenting firms
Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid - 2022
This paper investigates firm dynamics in the period before, during, and after an event consisting of a first published patent application. The analysis is based on patent data from the Norwegian Industrial Property Office merged with data from several business registers covering a period of...
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The interest rate pass-through in the Euro area during the global financial crisis : conference paper
Hristov, Nikolay; Hülsewig, Oliver; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2013
This paper uses panel vector autoregressive models and simulations of an estimated DSGE model to explore the reaction of Euro area banks to the global financial crisis. We focus on their interest rate setting behavior in response to standard macroeconomic shocks. Our main empirical finding is...
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Why do foreign banks withdraw from other countries? : a panel data analysis
Hryckiewicz, Aneta; Kowalewski, Oskar - 2010
This paper describes the trends in foreign bank ownership across the world and presents, for the first time, empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003955236
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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data
Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021
European and the World Championships since 1970. Determining the genetic diversity of national teams is based on the distance …
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A tale of two surplus countries : China and Germany
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2019
We analyze current account imbalances through the lens of the two largest surplus countries; China and Germany. We … observe two striking patterns visible since the 2007/8 Global Financial Crisis. First, while China has been gradually reducing … these two countries, there is a remarkable reversal in the patterns of exchange rate misalignment: China’s currency has …
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