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Lusinyan, Lusine; Buch, Claudia M. - 2000

One key focus of the on-going debate on the integration of international financial markets have been measures to lengthen the maturity of foreign debt. Short-term debt is typically considered to be volatile and thus a potential trigger of currency crises. In contrast to the vivid policy debate...

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Bank behavior and bad loans: Implications for reforms in Eastern Europe

Buch, Claudia M. - 1995

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The emerging financial systems of the Eastern European economics: A progress report

Buch, Claudia M. - 1995

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Banking and balance of payments crises: On possible causes of the twin crises

Buch, Claudia M.; Heinrich, Ralph P. - 1998

Banking and balance of payments crises often happen quite simultaneously. We show that the impact of an expected devaluation on the net worth of commercial banks with a short open foreign exchange position speeds up the timing of a balance of payments crisis. We employ an asymmetric information...

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Monetary policy and the transformation of the banking system in Eastern Europe

Buch, Claudia M. - 1995

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Domestic and Foreign Banks in Germany: Do They Differ?

Buch, Claudia M.; Golder, Stefan M. - 2000

The German banking market is notorious for its low degree of market penetration by foreign financial institutions, suggesting that markets serviced by domestic and foreign banks are segmented. This paper employs a number of tests to determine whether activities of domestic and foreign banks are...

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Capital Market Integration in Euroland - The Role of Banks

Buch, Claudia M. - 1999

enhances the incentives of banks to expand within Euroland. Yet, while the currency bias in bank portfolios will be eliminated …

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Why Do Banks Go Abroad? - Evidence from German Data

Buch, Claudia M. - 1999

This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign activities of German banks. We use regionally disaggregated panel data for the years 1981?98 and distinguish foreign direct investment from total foreign assets of domestic banks, of their foreign branches and their...

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Cross-Border Bank Mergers: What Lures the Rare Animal?

DeLong, Gayle L.; Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … spur growth in cross-border bank mergers. Also, mergers tend to be less frequent if information costs are high. …

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Cross-Border Banking and Transmission Mechanisms: The Case of Europe

Buch, Claudia M. - 2001

Europe, bank finance plays a relatively important role, and efforts have been made at creating a level playing field for …

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