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Bank mergers and acquisition and shareholders’ wealth maximization in Nigeria
Nwidobie Barine Michael - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 255-270
Banks operating in a regulated environment need to operate within the fiscal, monetary, political and legal regulations; customer tastes, habits and demand; and input supply changes. Changes in these require adjustments in the bank’s operations. Coping with these require finance and instant...
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Identificación de submercados de vivienda en España
Altuzarra Artola, Amaia; Esteban Galarza, Marisol - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 19-42
The objective of this work is to study whether the behaviour of the housing market is homogeneous in all provinces or, on the contrary, there is a specific housing behaviour particular to each province or group of provinces, leading to the existence of regional housing markets. The main data...
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Dynamic speculative behaviors and mortgage bubbles in the real estate market of mainland China
Wang, Sheng - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 1, pp. 1-54
paper establishes some innovative dynamic models, proposes a concept of net mortgage loan to net speculative gain ratios to … investigate the speculative behaviors and mortgage bubbles, and finally concludes some interesting results: The necessary …, and, the net mortgage loan to net speculative gain ratios subsequently exist, which approximately depict the potential …
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Business valuation engagement letter : regulations adopted in selected standards
Grudziński, Michał - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 13-24
The article presents conclusions drawn from the analysis of regulations concerning the issue of the content of business valuation engagement letter. The analysis covered regulations appearing in eight business valuation standards used in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Canada and the USA....
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The use of behavioral finance in the wealth management process
Opolski, Krzysztof; Potocki, Tomasz - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 55-65
The economic theories taking into consideration human behavior and based on the achievements of psychology, sociology, anthropology have been evolving at a blistering pace over the last decade. Owing to that, the behavioral finance has become one of the fastest developing academic areas focused...
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Reformbedarf in der EU-Bankenregulierung : Solvenz von Banken und Staaten entkoppeln
Pockrandt, Johannes; Radde, Sören - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 42, pp. 3-10
Jüngste Entwicklungen in Irland, Griechenland und Spanien zeigen: Finanzierungskrisen von Staaten gefährden deren Bankensektoren, Bankenkrisen die Zahlungsfähigkeit ihrer Heimatstaaten. Diese Kopplung von Staats- und Bankensolvenz wird durch den Home Bias im Staatsanleiheportfolio, also die...
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Does activity mix and funding strategy vary across ownership? : evidence from Indian banks
Ghosh, Saibal - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2011), pp. 1-33
Using data on Indian banks during 1996-2007, the paper examines the impact of bank activity and short-term funding for bank returns and risks. The findings indicate that larger, fast growing financial firms tend to have higher fee income shares. In addition, banks with greater reliance on fee...
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A lesson to learn from developed countries : the case of state branching deregulation in the US
Guillén, Jorge - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 1, pp. 67-95
The era of US state branching deregulation started in 1970 and ended up with the enactment of the Riegle Neal Act of 1994. One of the purposes of the branching restriction was to avoid bank concentration. The following paper addresses the influence of the state deregulation on commercial...
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Measuring commercial banks’ performances in Turkey : a proposed model
Teker, Suat; Tker, Dilek; Kent, Oya - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 3, pp. 96-112
This study considers financial performances of commercial banks of Turkey in the period of 2003 and 2010. The financial performance of banks is measured using an indexing model developed in this study. The model considers fundamental performance characteristics of banks and chooses related...
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Are bigger banks more profitable than smaller banks?
Chang, Matthew C.; Nieh, Chien-chung; Peng, Ya-hui - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 3, pp. 59-71
In this study, we apply Panel Threshold Model (Hansen, 1999) to examine whether there is optimal asset scale for interest spread to affect banks' profits. The empirical results demonstrate the existence of three thresholds, which divide banks into four groups into four groups according to asset...
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