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A cross-country comparison of market structures in European banking

Davis, E. Philip; De Bandt, Olivier - 1999

1992-1996, we provide evidence that European banking markets for large banks in the mid-1990s were still characterised by …

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Deposit insurance and moral hazard: does the counterfactual matter?

Gropp, Reint E.; Vesala, Jukka - 2001

banking systems have been characterised by strong implicit insurance operating through the expectation of public intervention …

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Equity and bond market signals as leading indicators of bank fragility

Gropp, Reint E.; Vesala, Jukka; Vulpes, Giuseppe - 2002

We analyse the ability of the distance-to-default and bond spreads to signal bank fragility. We show that both indicators are complete and unbiased and that spreads are non-linear in the probability of bank default. We empirically test these properties in a sample of EU banks. We find leading...

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Measurement of contagion in banks' equity prices

Gropp, Reint E.; Moerman, Gerard - 2003

This paper uses the co-incidence of extreme shocks to banks’ risk to examine within country and across country contagion among large EU banks. Banks’ risk is measured by the first difference of weekly distances to default and abnormal returns. Using Monte Carlo simulations, the paper...

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Deposit insurance, moral hazard and market monitoring

Gropp, Reint E.; Vesala, Jukka - 2004

banking model we show that deposit insurance may reduce moral hazard, if deposit insurance credibly leaves out non …

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Banking consolidation and small business lending

Takáts, Elod - 2004

finance more small firms, but incur higher costs than centralized ones. Small banks are interpreted as a bank with relatively … effects of banking consolidation and technological change on small business lending. The model suggests that not banking size …

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Banking system stability: a cross-Atlantic perspective

Hartmann, Philipp; Straetmans, Stefan; de Vries, Casper - 2005

This paper derives indicators of the severity and structure of banking system risk from asymptotic interdependencies … the euro area, we can also compare banking system stability between the two largest economies in the world. For Europe we …

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Acquisition versus greenfield: the impact of the mode of foreign bank entry on information and bank lending rates

Claeys, Sophie; Hainz, Christa - 2006

Policy makers often decide to liberalize foreign bank entry but at the same time restrict the mode of entry. We study how different entry modes affect the interest rate for loans in a model in which domestic banks possess private information about their incumbent clients but foreign banks have...

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Cross-border bank contagion in Europe

Gropp, Reint E.; Lo Duca, Marco; Vesala, Jukka - 2006

This paper analyses cross-border contagion in a sample of European banks from January 1994 to January 2003. We use a multinomial logit model to estimate the number of banks in a given country that experience a large shock on the same day (“coexceedances”) as a function of variables measuring...

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Is there a single frontier in a single European banking market?

Bos, Jaap W. B.; Schmiedel, Heiko - 2006

EU. Using a data set of more than 5000 large commercial banks from all major European banking markets over the period … 1993-2004, the application of meta-frontiers enables us to assess the existence of a single and integrated European banking … market. We find evidence in favor of a single European banking market characterized by cost and profit meta …

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