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Bad Luck or Bad Management? Emerging Banking Market Experience

Podpiera, Jiri; Weill, Laurent - Česká Národní Banka - 2007

A large number of bank failures occurred in transition countries during the 1990s and at the beginning of the 2000s. These failures were related to increases in non-performing loans and deteriorated cost efficiency of banks. This paper addresses the question of the causality between...

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Asymmetric Information and Loan Spreads in Russia: Evidence from Syndicated Loans

Fungacova, Zuzana; Godlewski, Christophe J.; Weill, Laurent - Siirtymätalouksien tutkimuslaitos, Suomen Pankki - 2009

This paper considers whether local bank participation exerts an impact on the spreads for syndicated loans in Russia. Following Berger, Klapper and Udell (2001), we test whether local banks possess a superior ability to deal with information asymmetries. Using a sample of 528 syndicated loans to...

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Are private banks more efficient than public banks? Evidence from Russia

Karas, Alexei; Schoors, Koen; Weill, Laurent - 2008

more from increased levels of competition and greater access of foreign banks than from bank privatization. …

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Asymmetric information and loan spreads in Russia: evidence from syndicated loans

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Godlewski, Christophe J.; Weill, … - 2009

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Bank capital, liquidity creation and deposit insurance

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Weill, Laurent; Zhou, Mingming - 2010

This paper examines how the introduction of deposit insurance influences the relationship between bank cap-ital and liquidity creation. As discussed by Berger and Bouwman (2009), there are two competing hypothes-es on this relationship which can be influenced by the presence of deposit...

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The Influence of Bank Ownership on Credit Supply: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Herrala, Risto; Weill, Laurent - 2011

This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where the banking sector consists of a mix of state-controlled banks, foreign-owned banks, and domestic private banks. To estimate credit supply changes, we employ an exhaustive...

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Does excessive liquidity creation trigger bank failures?

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Turk-Ariss, Rima; Weill, Laurent - 2013

This paper introduces the "Excessive Liquidity Creation Hypothesis," whereby a rise in a bank's core liquidity creation activity increases its probability of failure. Russia experienced many bank failures over the past decade, making it an ideal natural field experiment for testing this...

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How bank competition influence liquidity creation

Horvath, Roman; Seidler, Jakub; Weill, Laurent - 2013

This paper evaluates the effect of bank competition on liquidity creation by banks. Thus, we contribute to the … literature on both bank competition and the determinants of liquidity creation by banks. To explore this relationship, we conduct … dynamic GMM panel estimations on a dataset of Czech banks from 2002 to 2010. We find that enhanced competition reduces …

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Does bank competition influence the lending channel in the euro area

Fungáčová, Zuzana; Solanko, Laura; Weill, Laurent - 2013

This paper examines how bank competition influences the bank lending channel in the Euro area countries. Using a large … policy actions depending on the degree of bank competition. We find that the effect of monetary policy on bank lending is … dependent on bank competition: the transmission of monetary policy through the bank lending channel is less pronounced for banks …

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Do capital requirements affect bank efficiency? Evidence from China

Pessarossi, Pierre; Weill, Laurent - 2013

This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank effieciency. We study the relation between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004?2009, taking advantage of the profound regulatory changes in capital requirements that occurred...

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