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Stock markets, banks, and economic growth

Levine, Ross - In: The American economic review 88 (1998) 3, pp. 537-558

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Finance and growth: new evidence and policy analyses for Chile

Levine, Ross; Carkovic, Maria Vicenta - 2002

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Bank concentration: Chile and international comparisons

Levine, Ross - 2000

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Zombie lending and depressed restructuring in Japan

Caballero, Ricardo J.; Hoshi, Takeo; Kashyap, Anil K. - In: The American economic review 98 (2008) 5, pp. 1943-1977

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The Evolving Importance of Banks and Securities Markets

Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2012

This paper examines the evolving importance of banks and securities markets during the process of economic development. We find that as countries develop economically, (1) the size of both banks and securities markets increases relative to the size of the economy, (2) the association between an...

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Communication within Banking Organizations and Small Business Lending

Levine, Ross - 2019

We investigate how communication within banks affects small business lending. Using travel time between a bank's headquarters and its branches to proxy for the costs of communicating soft information, we exploit shocks to these travel times to evaluate the impact of within bank communication...

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A New Metric for Banking Integration in Europe

Gropp, Reint - 2010

taking place for retail banking. Data on cross-border retail bank flows, cross-border bank mergers and the law of one price … reveal no evidence of integration in retail banking. This paper shows that the previous tests of bank integration are weak in … role of an active market for corporate control and of competition in banking integration. European listed banks …

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Will the U.S. Bank Recapitalization Succeed? Eight Lessons from Japan

Hoshi, Takeo - 2010

rehabilitate the U.S. banking industry. Many of those strategies were used also in Japan to combat its banking problems in the 1990 …

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Zombie Lending and Depressed Restructuring in Japan

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2010

In this paper, we propose a bank-based explanation for the decade-long Japanese slowdown following the asset price collapse in the early 1990s. We start with the well-known observation that most large Japanese banks were only able to comply with capital standards because regulators were lax in...

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The Role of Banks in Reducing the Costs of Financial Distress in Japan

Hoshi, Takeo - 2008

This paper explores the idea that financial distress is costly because free-rider problems and information asymmetries make it difficult for firms to renegotiate with their creditors in times of distress. We present evidence consistent with this view by showing Japanese firms with financial...

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