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de Blas, Beatriz - 2010

When countries open their financial sectors, foreign-owned banks appear to bring superior efficiency to their host markets but also charge higher markups on borrowed funds than their domestically owned rivals, with unknown impacts on interest rates and welfare. Using heterogeneous, imperfectly...

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Is High Profitability of MENA Banks Due to the Existence of Monopolistic Conditions in the Sector?

Vergos, Konstantinos P. - 2018

The study investigates the competitive conditions and profitability drivers of commercial banks in MENA region in the context of Panzar-Rosse model. It is the first study of its kind that examines a large sample of MENA banks (149 banks) for an extensive period (1999-2012) during an era of...

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The Brazilian credit market : recent developments and impact on inequality

Prates, Daniela Magalhães; Ferreira, Adriana Nunes; … - 2015

The aim of this paper is analyzing the evolution of the Brazilian credit market from 2003 to 2011 and its impact on … inequality in Brazil. The arguments are organized as follows. After an introductory section, the second one presents the … determinants and the general trends of the banking credit market between December 2003 and December 2011, while the third section …

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Credit spreads and the links between the financial and real sectors in a small open economy : the case of the Czech Republic

Konečný, Tomáš; Babeckaja-Kucharcǔk, Oksana A. - In: Finance a úvěr 66 (2016) 4, pp. 302-321

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The impact of finance on the performance of Thai manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises

Amornkitvikai, Yot; Harvie, Charles - 2016

This study sheds light on small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) financing and its performance in Thailand. It elaborates on the key sources of finance existing for Thai manufacturing SMEs and their importance for SME performance as measured by technical efficiency, export performance, and...

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