This paper examines whether bank ownership (public versus private, domestic versus foreign) is correlated with bank … bank managers; evidence is found in support of the former hypothesis. In the case of foreign-owned banks, the paper finds …

This paper tests the efficiency of different structures of bank ownership in terms of its ability to target …

? Using data from the Czech National Bank and data on individual Czech banks, I find evidence that in 1995 banks are provided … portfolio switch and find that the central bank instituted a monetary tightening during a regime of fixed exchange rates and … mobile capital. The central bank sterilized the continuing capital inflows. The resulting higher interbank interest rates and …

We examine the relationship between the number of bank relationships and firms’ performance, evaluating possible … listed and for which bank debt is a major source of financing. In the sample, 4 percent of the firms have a single bank … as the number of bank relationships increases, with a stronger relationship for small firms than for large firms. We also …

We draw on stylized facts from the finance literature to build a model where altering the relative costs of bank and …