This paper assesses how legal origin influences financial development through regulation quality and the rule of law. It employs all the dimensions identified by the Financial Development and Structure Database of the World Bank. The law channels are instrumented with legal origins to account...

The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of corruption on bank lending in Russia. This issue is of major interest in order to understand the causes of financial underdevelopment and the effects of corruption in Russia. We use regional measures of corruption and bank-level data to...

Objective – Evidence suggests that bank customers should be given increased protection in their dealings with banks. The objectives of this research are, first, to analyze state interventionism in the protection of bank customers in Indonesia, and, second, to determine and analyzed the form of...

The ongoing financial crisis has made it clear that bureaucratic supervisors and public enforcement authorities are encountering serious difficulties in ensuring both bank stability and credit risk control. According to part of the literature, securities class actions (SCA) can be considered as...

Disputes involving banks deserve special attention from the judiciary. This flows from the overarching importance of banks to the financial system and the potentially disastrous consequences of bank failures. Against this background, this paper highlights key considerations that the Courts must...

Permanent control is defined as a permanent means acting and providing knowledge, control and monitoring of risks. Supervision of control permanent compartments includes: constant supervision through a set of dispositions applicable at the operational level to ensure legality, security and...

The study examined the gender gap and its implication on management practice in the Nigeria banking sector. Various literatures were reviewed that showed the implication of gender gap in banking sector. Both primary and secondary data were used in the study. Chi-square technique was used to test...

As transparency and disclosure are positively related, the recent shocks in the banking sectors of Bangladesh have brought disclosure issue in the limelight. Disclosure is the act of releasing all relevant information- well or bad- pertaining to a company that may influence an investment...

Critics have blamed fair value accounting for amplifying the subprime crisis and for causing a financial meltdown. It has been alleged that fair value accounting has created a vicious circle of falling prices, thereby increasing the overall risk in the financial system. In this paper, I...

The purpose of this study is to examine whether merged banks are engaged in earnings management just prior to the merger. I use the Modified Jones model for the empirical tests. Other studies have used the Modified Jones model on multi-industry manufacturing samples. Two other studies (Key 1997;...