During the last decades there has been a widespread relaxation of legal entry barriers into the banking industry, with potential benefits for financial integration and competition. Obstacles to banks' geographical and business expansion have been removed and branching has been substantially...

This study enhances the growing research field of Cultural Finance by analyzing the relationship between cultural value types – in particular Autonomy and Embeddedness – and the corporate debt choice of either bank or bond financing. We derive our hypotheses from a slight modification and...

Using a novel dataset of firm-level perceived trustworthiness from the news media and social media, we find that lending banks charge significantly higher loan spread on firms with lower trustworthiness. Loans to these firms also tend to have shorter loan maturities, more financial covenants,...

We explore how bank CEOs' cultural heritage shapes the nexus between lending relationships and the cost of bank loans in the US syndicated loans market. We show that banks led by CEOs that trace their origin in more individualistic and masculine societies are less inclined to share with their...

There is a significant transformation in the banking sector in India both in the Public and the Private Sector Banks. The everyday scandals makes it imperative to understand the Organisational Culture of the Public and the Private Sector banks. The various terms that are used in association with...

Combining rich and novel datasets from China, we investigate how city-level cultural fractionalization affects social trust and the efficiency of financial intermediation. Using an instrumental variable approach, we find that cultural fractionalization significantly lowers the efficiency of...

Why do good bankers at times respond unanimously with the same disastrous strategy? Rooted in regulatory economics and behavioural finance, the paper offers a taxonomy of effects that narrow banks decision scope into funnel-shaped and thus prepared the ground for the financial crisis. The basic...

Following on from a paper by Yoshiharu Oritani, Public Governance of Central Banks: An Approach from New Institutional Economics. Public governance is an institutional framework whereby the general public governs a central bank by and through the legislative and executive bodies in a country....

Having read Public Governance of Central Banks by Yoshiharu Oritani and looking at the UK in particular I am proposing a model where all government money is held in a central series of bank accounts using the structure of recently nationalised banks and the post office branches to be used as a...

The link between bank trust and financial inclusion remains less explored despite the recent emphasis on financial inclusion in the midst of significant declines in bank trust across the globe. From an emerging country perspective, we examine the bank trust – financial inclusion nexus and the...