We investigate a network of financial institutions in Korea using the Korea Consumer Credit Panel (KCCP). The main contribution of this paper is that we construct the network of financial institution from the consumer credit level. We assume each consumer make a loan from multiple institutions...

Despite the conspicuous explosion of digital banking, mobile banking, fintech startups and the implications of AI adoption, there is a relative dearth of empirical studies that provide a quantitative analysis of the impact of the Fintech on banks' financial performance. Instead there is a...

This study applied panel analysis to determine the factors influencing interest margins in Nigeria using bank-specific, sector-specific and macroeconomic data ranging from 2010:Q1 to 2014:Q2. Based on the Hausman test, a fixed effect model in a generalized form (GLS) was estimated. The result...

This brief essay uses the pitching research initiated by Faff (2015, 2019) to find a new research direction in financial technology (Fintech). The pitch structure underscores the key components of research strategically. The objective of this study is to explore a new area by adopting the...

We use the 2020 Small Business Credit Survey to study the sources of racial disparities in use of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Black-owned firms are 8.9 percentage points less likely than observably similar white-owned firms to receive PPP loans. About 55 percent of this take-up...

This paper examines the quality of credit ratings assigned to banks in Europe and the United States by the three largest rating agencies over the past two decades. We interpret credit ratings as relative assessments of creditworthiness, and define a new ordinal metric of rating error based on...

This paper analyzes the productivity and efficiency of Turkish banks from 2002 to 2010. We obtained estimates of efficiency, productivity growth and efficiency growth using a Bayesian stochastic frontier approach and focused on accounting for Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) for use in our model....

While the volume of cross-border capital inflow to emerging market economies (EMEs) has been increasing since 1970s, the last three decades have witnessed a more pronounced change in the structure of these cross-border capital flows. In this paper, we document the rise of domestic global banks...

The COVID-19 pandemic could result in large government interventions in the banking industry. To shed light on the possible consequences on market power, we rely on the experience of the global financial crisis and exploit granular data on government interventions in more than 800 banks across...

We find that spreads on loans originated by lenders affiliated to the IPO underwriters (informed lenders) are 12 basis points (bps) higher than loans originated by unaffiliated (uninformed) lenders. The price of these affiliated post-IPO loans is 59 bps higher than that of those unaffiliated...