The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in India have grown from $3.85 million in 2000 to $7.89 million in 2001.These developments together with the recent steps taken by government to promote venture capitalism in India...

Several studies have recommended reliance on subordinated debt as a tool for monitoring banks by investors and for enhancing depositors’ protection. However, subordinated debenture increases the level of leverage and thus the probability of costly failure. We propose a novel financial...

The primary purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between bank capital and credit risk taking in emerging market economies. We also investigate the influence of several regulatory, institutional and legal features on the relationship between risk and capital. We apply a...

Cet article étudie l’impact des facteurs institutionnels et réglementaires sur la défaillance des banques des pays émergents. Peu de travaux se sont intéressés à la défaillance bancaire dans ces pays. Or, la qualité des institutions telles que les commissions de régulation et de...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the regulatory and institutional factors which may increase excessive risk taking in banks. Few studies deal with the impact of these external factors on bank’s risk taking and probability of default, despite the fact that empirical investigation is...

L’environnement réglementaire et institutionnel influence la prise de risque du banquier, particulièrement dans les pays émergents. L’excès de risque qui peut en résulter fragilise considérablement la solidité bancaire. Cet article étudie l’influence des facteurs institutionnels...

Cet article propose d’appliquer la méthodologie de scoring et de calibrage afin d’étudier la cohérence des ratings de banques avec un modèle de défaut des banques dans les pays émergents. En effet, le rôle du rating en temps que vecteur de discipline de marché, via la véhiculation...

We seek to contribute to both the finance-growth literature and the community banking literature by testing the effects of the relative health of community banks on economic growth and investigating potential transmission mechanisms for these effects using data from 1993–2000 on 49 nations....

In the light of the inequity of the way losses from bank insolvencies and their avoidance through intervention by the authorities have been distributed over creditors, depositors, owners and the population at large in transition and emerging economies, this paper explores a number of regulatory...

This paper provides an explanation for the observation that banks hold on average a capital ratio in excess of regulatory requirements. We use a functional approach to banking based on Diamond and Rajan (2001) to demonstrate that banks can use capital ratios as a strategic tool for renegotiating...