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Comparative analysis of the banking sector competitiveness in Serbia and Montenegro
Grubišić, Zoran; Kamenković, Sandra; Kaličanin, Tijana - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 10 (2021) 1, pp. 75-91
that when calculating the value of these indices, the National Bank of Serbia most often uses the absolute value of assets …
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Monetary policy and the transformation of the banking system in Eastern Europe
Buch, Claudia M. - 1995
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Oil and Growth in Transition Countries
Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2009
This paper examines the impact of oil on economic growth in transition economies of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). We use oil production and reserves data in a series of panel estimations to show that oil has had strong and robust positive growth effects...
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Market structure and competitive conditions in the Arab GCC banking system
al- Muharrami, Saeed; Matthews, Kent; Khabari, Yusuf - 2006
This paper investigates the market structure of Arab GCC banking industry during the years of 1993 to 2002 using the most frequently applied measures of concentration kbank concentration ratio (CRk) and Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and evaluates the monopoly power of banks over the ten years...
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Consolidation in banking and financial stability in Europe: empirical evidence
Uhde, André; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2009
measured by the Z-score technique while controlling for macroeconomic, bank-specific, regulatory, and institutional factors …
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Market concentration in the banking sector: Evidence from Albania
Tushaj, Arjan - 2010
Sector has changed dramatically in recent years. On 1990s, our country has experienced deregulation, foreign bank penetration …
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How does competition affect efficiency and soundness in banking? New empirical evidence
Schaeck, Klaus; Čihák, Martin - 2008
A growing body of literature indicates that competition increases bank soundness. Applying an industrial organization … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator … bank soundness. We find evidence that competition robustly increases bank soundness, via the efficiency channel. …
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Land and Credit: A Study of the Political Economy of Banking in the United States in the Early 20th Century
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Ramcharan, Rodney - 2009
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Republic of Belarus: Financial sector review and private sector financing
Gattini, Luca; Borysko, Sofia - 2018
The study assesses the macro-financial situation of Belarus. It analyses the Belarus financial sector, with a specific look at the banking sector. Moreover this study explores the private sector financing environment. In particular the study investigates the SMEs segment and looks at the needs...
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Monitoring managers: does it matter?
Cornelli, Francesca; Kominek, Zbigniew; Ljungqvist, … - 2010
We test under what circumstances boards discipline managers and whether such interventions improve performance. We exploit exogenous variation due to the staggered adoption of corporate governance laws in formerly Communist countries coupled with detailed 'hard' information about the board's...
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