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Global versus non-global banks: A capital ratios-based analysis
Drakos, Kōnstantinos; Malandrakis, Ioannis - In: Journal of Central Banking Theory and Practice 10 (2021) 2, pp. 5-22
This paper examines the Leverage Ratio and Total Capital Ratio of global versus non-global banks in both the pre- and post-crisis periods. A panel data set of 165 global and non-global financial institutions from 38 countries is used for the period 1999-2015 and a random effects model is...
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Non-parametric analysis of bank merger gains: The case of Vietnam
Nguyen, Phuong Anh; Pham, Linh Dan; McMillan, David - In: Cogent Business & Management 7 (2020) 1, pp. 1-17
Over the last years, the banking sector in Vietnam has been going through the restructuring period, in order to cope with non-performing loans and build up mergers and acquisitions. This paper applies the non-parametric method proposed by Bogetoft and Wang in 2005 to evaluate the bank merger...
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To Separate or not to Separate Investment from Commercial Banking? An Empirical Analysis of Attention Distortion under Multiple Tasks
Gropp, Reint E.; Park, Kyounghoon - 2016
In the wake of the 2008/2009 financial crisis, a number of policy reports (Vickers, Liikanen, Volcker) proposed to separate investment banking from commercial banking to increase financial stability. This paper empirically examines one theoretical justification for these proposals, namely...
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Market for investment banking products in modern economy
Michalczyk, Leszek - In: e-Finanse: Financial Internet Quarterly 8 (2012) 1, pp. 14-22
This article is divided into four sections. In the first one, we describe the origin and history of investment banking, with particular focus on the economic conditions that led to its birth in the United States. The second part considers those products offered by investments banks which are...
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Microfinance Institutions’ Efficiency in the MENA region: a Bootstrap-DEA approach
Ben Abdelkader, Ines; Hathroubi, Salem; Ben Jemaa, … - 2012
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance of microfinance institutions in The MENA region over the … period 2006-2009. Following Simar and Wilson (1998, 2000) we use a DEA-Bootstrapping methodology to drift appropriate … measures of DEA efficiency scores. The estimated results show that average efficiency of the most countries of the region has …
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COVID 19 and bank profitability in low income countries: The case of Uganda
Katusiime, Lorna - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 14 (2021) 12, pp. 1-19
This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on banking sector profitability in Uganda for the period spanning Q1 2000 to Q1 2021, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL Bound) testing approach to co-integration while controlling for bank specific and macroeconomic...
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The determinants of credit risk: An evidence from ASEAN and GCC Islamic banks
Bhatti, Muhammad Ishaq - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 13 (2020) 5, pp. 1-22
in nine countries from Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) regions. It …
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Efficiency analysis of Islamic banks in the Middle East and North Africa region: A bootstrap DEA approach
Bahrini, Raéf - In: International Journal of Financial Studies 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-13
all MENA Islamic banks as well as for the two subsamples: Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and non-GCC Islamic banks …This paper measures and analyzes the technical efficiency of Islamic banks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA …) region during the period 2007-2012. To do this, the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach was employed in order …
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Project finance in Europe: An overview and discussion of key drivers
Pinto, João M.; Alves, Paulo P. - 2016
This paper examines the pricing of project finance (PF) and non-project finance (non-PF) loans and examines the factors that influence the borrower's choice between project financing and corporate financing. Using a sample of 210,273 syndicated loans closed between 2000 and 2014, we find that PF...
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Short-term determinants of the idiosyncratic sovereign risk premium: a regime-dependent analysis for european credit default swaps
Calice, Giovanni; Miao, RongHui; Štěrba, Filip; … - 2014
This study investigates the dynamics of the sovereign CDS term premium for five European countries. The CDS term premium can be regarded as a forward-looking measure of idiosyncratic sovereign default risk as perceived by financial markets. Using a Markov-switching unobserved component model, we...
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