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uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world …, has a high share of women on bank executive boards. Using the news-based EPU index developed by Baker, Bloom, and Davis … significantly under-represented on bank boards in most countries, these results argue for policies to promote gender diversity of …
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State-owned banks tend to increase lending before elections for the purpose of boosting the re-election odds of incumbent politicians. We employ monthly data on individual banks to study whether Russian banks increased their lending before presidential elections during 2004-2019, a period...
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uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world …, has a high share of women on bank executive boards. Using the news-based EPU index developed by Baker, Bloom, and Davis … significantly under-represented on bank boards in most countries, these results argue for policies to promote gender diversity of …
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This paper investigates the motive of geographic risk diversification in the lending activity for bank mergers in the …
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uncertainty (EPU) and bank liquidity hoarding (LH). We focus on the Russian banking sector, which, relative to most of the world …, has a high share of women on bank executive boards. Using the news-based EPU index developed by Baker, Bloom, and Davis … significantly under-represented on bank boards in most countries, these results argue for policies to promote gender diversity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014258806
use the portfolio approach to assess the optimal risk-return combination of a bank’s portfolio, based on data for 32 … categories of loans. It provides a benchmark for the optimality of the bank’s portfolio. The authors apply this method on an …
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This paper considers whether information asymmetries affect the willingness of foreign banks to participate in syndicated loans to corporate borrowers in China. We analyze how ownership concentration, which influences information asymmetries in the relationship between the borrower and the...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the effect of capital requirements on bank efficiency. We study the relation … between capital ratio and bank efficiency for Chinese banks over the period 2004-2009, taking advantage of the profound … size of which depends to an extent on the bank’s ownership type. Our results therefore suggest that capital requirements …
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