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The threat of capital drain : a rationale for public banks?
Hakenes, Hendrik; Schnabel, Isabel - 2006
This paper yields a rationale for why subsidized public banks may be desirable from a regional perspective in a financially integrated economy. We present a model with credit rationing and heterogeneous regions in which public banks prevent a capital drain from poorer to richer regions by...
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Hidden Government Influence Over Privatized Banks
Hamdani, Assaf - 2015
This article uses Israel's ongoing process of bank privatization to explore the link between privatization programs and … shareholders to widely held firms. The government may therefore prefer selling a control block in the firm undergoing privatization …
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Multinational lending retrenchment after the global financial crisis: the impact of policy interventions
Müting, Miriam - 2020 - This version: June 29, 2020
Did policy interventions contribute to the gradual segmentation of lending markets starting with the 2007 - 2008 global financial crisis? We investigate this question in an international Cournot duopoly model under an equity constraint. Two symmetric multinational banks compete for corporate...
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Reform of the European Union financial supervisory and regulatory architecture and its implications for Asia
Darvas, Zsolt M.; Schoenmaker, Dirk; Véron, Nicolas - 2016
European Union countries offer a unique experience of financial regulatory and supervisory integration, complementing various other European integration efforts following the second world war. Financial regulatory and supervisory integration was a very slow process before 2008, despite...
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Why we should embrace institutional diversity in banking
Bertuch-Samuels, Axel - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 87 (2018) 4, pp. 127-139
The contribution of institutionally diversified financial sectors to more sustainable growth and financial stability-in particular the role of effective local banking structures—is not always fully appreciated, whether in the context of development cooperation or in policy discussions in the...
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The Politics of Financial Regulatory Agency Replacement
Kleibl, Johannes - 2013
As the global financial crisis has shown, regulatory agencies can at times spectacularly fail to fulfil their regulatory mandates. Yet, the conditions under which governments respond to regulatory failures by terminating and replacing their regulatory agencies have so far remained largely...
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Cross-border banking in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2016
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture untraded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels of...
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Multinational banks in regulated markets : is financial integration desirable?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2018
We set up a two-country, regional model of trade in financial services. Competitive firms in each country manufacture non-traded consumer goods in an uncertain productive environment, borrowing funds from a bank in either the home or the foreign market. Duopolistic banks can choose their levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902728
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Bank ownership, board characteristics and performance : evidence from commercial banks in India
Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata - In: International Journal of Financial Studies : open … 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-30
We study the effect of board governance in state-owned and private banks by undertaking a study of commercial banks in India that has both bank groups. Covering a ten-year period from 2003 to 2012 that witnessed a large number of governance reforms in India, the results of our empirical analysis...
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Local Governments' Fiscal Balance, Privatization, and Banking Sector Reform in Transition Countries
Crivelli, Ernesto - 2012
liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances … over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments' fiscal discipline …? The answer is clearly ‘no' for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational fiscal …
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