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Banking in Transition Countries
Bonin, John; Hasan, Iftekhar; Wachtel, Paul - 2008
Modern banking institutions were virtually non-existent in the planned economies of central Europe and the former … Soviet Union. In the early transition period, banking sectors began to develop during several years of macroeconomic decline … addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the …
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How Bank Managers Anticipate Non-Performing Loans. Evidence from Europe, US, Asia and Africa
Ozili, Peterson K - 2016
This study extends the literature on the determinants of NPL. I investigate whether banks anticipate non-performing loans by making balance sheet adjustments. This study draws insights into the actions taken by credit risk management teams and bank managers to minimize the size of non-performing...
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Credit Booms and Busts in Emerging Markets : The Role of Bank Governance and Risk Management
Andries, Alin Marius - 2017
This paper investigates to what extent risk management and corporate governance mitigate the involvement of banks in credit boom and bust cycles. Using a unique, hand-collected dataset on 156 banks from Central and Eastern Europe during 2005-2012, we assess whether banks with stronger risk...
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Changes in Lending Practices and Borrower Reporting Quality : Evidence from Chinese State Bank Privatizations
Chen, Deqiu - 2018
terms exhibit a larger increase in sensitivity to borrowers' FRQ. These results suggest that post-privatization: (1) CSBs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936432
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Agency Meets Stability : The Effect of Corporate Governance and Capital Requirements on Bank Lending
Bosshardt, Joshua; Kakhbod, Ali; Sachdeva, Kunal - 2023
The conventional view is that capital requirements, those intended to reduce bank risks, can have a negative impact on bank lending. This paper reconsiders this view by studying the interaction between capital requirements and corporate governance. Our model highlights how capital requirements...
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Bank Loans and Trade Credit Under China's Financial Repression
Du, Julan - 2009
China has maintained a financial system with favorable treatments toward state-owned enterprises. Albeit having been denied access to formal financing such as bank loans, China's non-state firms have grown rather fast. China's experience has often been interpreted as indicating that alternative...
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Are Bank-Firm Relationship and Political Connection Substitutes or Complements? How Does Firms Maximize Credit Availability : The Case of Vietnam
Lobez, Frederic - 2018
corruption. The policy-makers should prefer the transaction banking system to the relationship banking system. This matter is the …
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Information Sharing and the Volume of Private Credit in Transition : Evidence from Ukrainian Bank-Level Panel Data
Grajzl, Peter - 2012
The effect of lenders' information sharing on the volume of credit is ambiguous in theory and underexplored empirically. Departing from the scant existing literature, which draws on country-level aggregate data, we study the impact of information sharing on the volume of private credit by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114677
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Determinants of Bank Interest Margins in Central and Eastern Europe : A Comparison with the West
Claeys, Sophie; Vander Vennet, Rudi - 2008
compare CEEC banks with Western European banks. Our results indicate that banking in the CEEC is on a virtuous path, at least …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215147
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Are Firm- and Country-Specific Governance Substitutes? Evidence from Financial Contracts in Emerging Markets
Francis, Bill B. - 2012
We investigate how borrowers' corporate governance influences bank loan contracting terms in emerging markets and how this relation varies across countries with different country-level governance. We find that borrowers with stronger corporate governance obtain favorable contracting terms with...
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