This paper empirically investigates the link between political patronage and bank performance for Ukraine during 2003Q3 …

coalition. Our empirical results show that firms with political patronage were adversely affected by the electoral outcome. More … political patronage also decreased their leverage levels significantly more than other firms after the 2008 election, suggesting …

be met for a bank to be resolvable, the “safe-to-fail” test and the banking structures required in order to meet this …Banks cannot be made fail-safe. But they can be made safe to fail, so that the failure of a bank need not disrupt the … amounts to a pre-pack reorganization of the bank that the resolution authority can implement over a weekend, if the bank …

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 …

on anchoring bias are strong even after controlling for bank managers’ potential informational advantages over U …