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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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Banking Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from Panel-Data
Ruiz-Porras, Antonio - In: Estudios Económicos 23 (2008) 1, pp. 49-87
We study how competition may affect the stability of banking systems. We modify the failure-determinant methodology to include panel-data techniques. We use indicators for 47 countries between 1990 and 1997. The main findings show that banking concentration and foreign ownership are associated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991444
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Finance and Growth: Some Theoretical Considerations and a Review of the Empirical Literature
Tsuru, Kotaro - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2000
This paper aims at providing an overview of the theoretical considerations and a review of the empirical literature on the relationship between finance and growth. Section I describes the role of financial development in economic growth at the macro level, both theoretically and empirically....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046080
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Do Financial Systems Converge?: New Evidence from Household Financial Assets in Selected OECD Countries
Bruno, Giuseppe; Bonis, Riccardo De - Statistics Directorate, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009
Many authors underlined the convergence of financial structures towards a model which combines elements of the Anglo … predominant. The goal of this paper is to study financial systems convergence through the lens of household asset allocation. We … analyze s and ß convergence of total household financial assets and their main components: deposits, securities other than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962953
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How national and international financial development affect industrial R&D
Maskus, Keith E.; Neumann, Rebecca; Seidel, Tobias - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 1, pp. 72-83
We examine the impacts of both domestic and international financial market development on R&D intensities in 22 manufacturing industries in 18 OECD countries for the period 1990–2003. We take account of such industry characteristics as the need for external financing and the amount of tangible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688147
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Do financial systems converge? New evidence from financial assets in OECD countries
Bruno, Giuseppe; De Bonis, Riccardo; Silvestrini, Andrea - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 40 (2012) 1, pp. 141-155
The objective of this paper is to study the issue of convergence of financial systems through the lens of asset … allocation. It examines β- and σ-convergence of the most important financial instruments: deposits, debt securities, shares and … existence of β-convergence of shares and insurance products, confirming an increasing importance of capital markets all over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052830
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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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Financial Inclusion and Financial Stability : Current Policy Issues
Hannig, Alfred; Jansen, Stefan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The recent financial crisis has shown that financial innovation can have devastating systemic impacts. International standard setters and national regulators response has been a global concerted effort to overhaul and tighten financial regulations. However, at a time of designing stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363822
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The Political Debate about Savings Banks
Schmidt, Reinhard H. - In: Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr) 61 (2009) 4, pp. 366-392
There have been lively political debates about savings banks as long as this type of financial institutions has existed. The focus of these debates have been two of the characteristic features of savings banks: They have always pursued financial as well as non-financial objectives, and until a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636392
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CORPORATE GOVERNANCE: CHALLENGES FOR LATIN AMERICA
LEFORT, FERNANDO; WALKER, EDUARDO - In: Abante 2 (2000) 2, pp. 99-111
Corporate Governance relates to mechanisms through which providers of resources to the firm get their share of resources in return. Adequate governance practices help develop capital markets and assist market forces in attaining efficient contracts. Convincing evidence exists that well developed...
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