Showing 1 - 10 of 313
bank-level can impact aggregate volatility. We find weak evidence for a link between granular banking sector volatility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010471853
This paper discusses the relation between trade and competition, revising the literature and using indicators, build with Brazilian industrial survey (PIA/IBGE) and foreign trade (Comtrade) data. The premise is that the structure of domestic competition is explained by concentration indices,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429351
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011668722
Competing intermediaries search on behalf of consumers among a large number of horizontally differentiated sellers. Consumers either pick the best deal offered by a random intermediary, or compare the intermediaries. A higher number of deal finders has the direct effect of decreasing their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598029
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009242966
In this paper, we analyze the growth effects of historical and biological ancestry, diversity and financial development in transition economies. We show that the common indicators of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, state history and genetic distance yield significant results and to some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596107
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428498
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003527600
risk factors, we separate the bank-specific selection and monitoring abilities from the composition of the loan portfolio …, on average, lower loan losses, (b) the loss rate of a given industry in a bank's loan portfolio is lower if the bank has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010233376
competition. Here, we employ a novel approach to account for IRS that are both unexpected and effective for a bank’s business … theory that monopolistic firms undersupply the market when utilizing their high pricing power in the bank competition …–liquidity creation nexus. While positive IRS per se lead to an increase in bank liquidity creation, we find that a high bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013184357