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Bank Governance, Regulation, and Risk Taking

Laeven, Luc - 2008

This paper conducts the first empirical assessment of theories concerning relationships among risk taking by banks, their ownership structures, and national bank regulations. We focus on conflicts between bank managers and owners over risk, and show that bank risk taking varies positively with...

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Is There a Diversification Discount in Financial Conglomerates?

Laeven, Luc - 2005

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Governance and Bank Valuation

Caprio, Gerard - 2003

Which public policies and ownership structures enhance the governance of banks? This paper constructs a new database on the ownership of banks internationally and then assesses the ramifications of ownership, shareholder protection laws, and supervisory/regulatory policies on bank valuations....

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Bank Concentration and Crises

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

relationship between the market structure of the banking industry and bank fragility, this paper studies the impact of bank … concentration, bank regulations, and national institutions on the likelihood of suffering a systemic banking crisis. Using data on … 70 countries from 1980 to 1997, we find that crises are less likely in economies with (i) more concentrated banking …

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Bank Supervision and Corporate Finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

and corruption in raising external finance, which is consistent with political/regulatory capture theories. Creating a …

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Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth : Panel Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2002

This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period 1976-98 and applying recent GMM techniques developed for dynamic panels. On balance, we find that stock markets and banks positively influence economic growth and these findings...

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Bank supervision and corporate finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

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Bank concentration and crises

Beck, Thorsten - 2003

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The impact of bank regulations, concentration, and institutions on bank margins

Demirguç-Kunt, Asli - 2003

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Stock markets, banks, and growth : correlation or causality

Beck, Thorsten - 2001

Analysis of a panel data set for 1976-98 shows that on balance stock markets and banks positively influence economic growth; findings that do not result from biases induced by simultaneity, omitted variables, or unobserved country-specific effects

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