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Banking competition and financial fragility: Evidence from panel-data
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We study how banking competition may affect the stability of banking systems. We develop our study by expanding the failure-determinant methodology to include panel-data techniques and by controlling the effects of financial structure and development. We use indicators for 47 countries between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787149
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Growth Effects of Financial Integration and Financial Deepening in Selected Sub-Saharan African Economies: a Panel-Data Approach
Evans, Olaniyi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper investigates the growth effects of financial integration and financial deepening in selected SSA economies, using a panel dataset of 10 SSA countries from 1970-2012. We use ratio of net FDI inflow to GDP (proxy for financial integration), ratio of gross capital formation to GDP (proxy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259904
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The European Financial System in Limelight
Adnan, Noureen; Shahzad, Syed Jawad Hussain - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Efficient use of resources depends on better allocation through financial systems. Development of financial systems can be measured through the performance of banks, financial markets and insurance companies. This paper identifies several key attributes to measure the level of financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112249
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African Stock Market Performance Dynamics: A Multidimensional Convergence Assessment
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper dissects with great acuteness, the issues of convergence in financial performance dynamics in the African …(Christianity and Islam). Findings provide partial support for the existence of absolute convergence in some dynamics. Only SSA reveals … conditional convergence in relation to per capita number of listed companies. The speed of convergence for the most part is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422010
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Regulation and supervision of microfinance institutions: an example of cooperative credit society
FOUNANOU, Mathurin; M; RATSIMALAHELO, Zaka; Z - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study the optimal regulation of a cooperative credit society which has private information on the intrinsic quality of its loan portfolio (adverse selection) and where the cooperative’s choice of effort to improve this quality cannot be observed by the regulator (moral hazard). We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259760
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Structural distortions in the Euro interbank market: the role of 'key players' during the recent market turmoil
Liberati, Caterina; Marzo, Massimiliano; Zagaglia, Paolo; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We study the frictions in the patterns of trades in the Euro money market. We characterize the structure of lending relations during the period of recent financial turmoil. We use network-topology method on data from overnight transactions in the Electronic Market for Interbank Deposits (e-Mid)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260538
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What determines return risks for bank equities in Turkey?
Ozsoz, Emre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
By using data from thirteen publicly traded commercial and deposit banks this paper estimates the determinants of market risk for bank equities in the case of an emerging market setting, Turkey. The analysis reveals that maturity composition of a bank’s loans, the share of trading income in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370837
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Get rid of banks and build up a modern financial world
Lenz, Rainer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The financial crisis has revealed fatal institutional and structural deficits at the finance market. Politics has reacted to the financial crisis with a sea of legal bills and regulations. But all regulating efforts are merely system-imminent reparation measures and do not solve the core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322661
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Dubai financial crisis: causes, bailout and after - a case study
Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper explains the circumstances that led Dubai to the current financial crisis that still lingers. It analyses the steps taken at various stages by the city state to ameliorate the situation including the bailout help the UAE Government eventually granted. It spotlights the role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693546
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Sukuk Bond: The Global Islamic Financial Instrument
Shaikh, Salman; Saeed, Shan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Global financial markets are volatile right now and will remain so for the next 2-years. Equity markets are shaky. Investors risk appetite is suddenly moving to commodities. Bond market is precarious as Sovereign debt risk goes high. Global economy is slowly moving into recession which will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008728053