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The Kosovo’s Financial Sector is one of the newest financial sectors in Eastern Europe whose developments began in early 2000. Kosovo's banking sector consists of 8 privately owned commercial banks, the insurance companies which make up 5% of total financial sector assets by 10 insurance...
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Islamic banking has achieved substantial growth in Pakistan and all over the world in the last two decades or so. Despite the financial and economic crisis of 2007 and afterwards, the Islamic banking industry has witnessed exemplary and uninterrupted growth. In Pakistan, it has achieved market...
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policy decisions by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and the European Central Bank (ECB). We confirm prior findings …
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In this study we provide empirical evidence demonstrating a relationship between the nature of the assets and the primary market spread. The model also provides predictions on how other pricing characteristics affect spread, since little is known about how and why spreads of asset-backed...
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and bank managers to minimize the size of non-performing loans. After examining 82 banks from US, Europe, Asia and Africa … predictive power of each bank-specific factor (excluding loan diversification), regulatory variable and macroeconomic indicator …
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In-spite of large volume of Contingent Credit Lines (CCL) in all commercial banks paucity of Exposure at Default (EAD) models, unsuitability of external data and inconsistent internal data with partial draw-down, has been a major challenge for risk managers as well as regulators for managing CCL...
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The paper studies the impact of bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic factors affecting profitability of … Indian Banks in a dynamic model framework. The persistence of bank profits and endogeneity of the factors have been accounted … obtained from 42 Indian Scheduled Commercial Banks for the period from 2000 to 2013 .The lag of bank profits variable ROA has …
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The paper aims at investigating on the credit conditions experienced by Italian firms during the recent business cycle. In doing so, we use a novel dataset on firms’ opinions derived from the ISTAT Business Confidence surveys. The dataset allows us to add to existing literature in three...
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This paper examines empirically the role of bank market power as an internal factor influencing banks’ reaction in … sectors over the period 1997-2010. Market power is estimated at the bank-year level, using a method that allows the efficient … estimation of marginal cost of banks also at the bank-year level. The findings show that banks with even moderate levels of …
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Central Bank of Nigeria’ cashless policy is an initiative at the right direction since it will help in minimising the cost of …
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