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Bank Mergers in the Financial Crisis – A Competition Policy Perspective
Hellwig, Michael - 2019
We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the merging banks decreased interest rates by 3 to 5 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859676
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Agony of choice : trading off stability and competition in the banking markets
Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019 - Preliminary version
and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012268034
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Bank mergers in the financial crisis : a competition policy perspective
Hellwig, Michael; Laser, Falk Hendrik - 2019
We analyze a large merger in the Dutch banking market during the financial crisis using disaggregated data. Based on a merger simulation model, we evaluate merger-induced changes in the interest rates for savings accounts. We find that the merging banks decreased interest rates by 3 to 5 percent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118754
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What determines the growth of micro firms in the euro area?
Dēmelē, Sophias P.; Giotopoulos, Ioannis; Louri, Helen - In: Economics and Business Letters : EBL 5 (2016) 4, pp. 145-151
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716014
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Bank Market Structure, Competition, and SME Financing Relationships in European Regions
Mercieca, Steve - 2010
How do concentration and competition in the European banking sector affect lending relationships between small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) and their banks? Recent empirical evidence suggests that concentration and competition capture different characteristics of banking systems. Using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152904
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Is Small Beautiful? The Resilience of Small Banks During the European Debt Crisis
Liu, Cai - 2019
to provide a liquidity buffer that influences bank-specific loan growth positively (complementarity effect), particularly … in new banking regulation that penalise bank size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901000
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Sources of the small firm financing premium : evidence from euro area banks
Holton, Sarah; McCann, Fergal - 2017
hampered the smooth transmission of accommodative monetary policy. Using bank level data from 2007 to 2015, we directly measure … bank in the same month for loans to small and large firms (the "Small Firm Financing Premium", SFFP). We assess the role … played by both bank and macroeconomic factors in explaining the variation in the SFFP across countries and through time. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011697389
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Sources of the Small Firm Financing Premium : Evidence from Euro Area Banks
Holton, Sarah - 2017
hampered the smooth transmission of accommodative monetary policy. Using bank level data from 2007 to 2015, we directly measure … bank in the same month for loans to small and large firms (the "Small Firm Financing Premium", SFFP). We assess the role … played by both bank and macroeconomic factors in explaining the variation in the SFFP across countries and through time. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012949926
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Common Distress and Reorganization Patterns by Sector and Country for SMEs in Six European Countries using PDFR
Tascón, Maria T.; Laitinen, Erkki; Castaño, Francisco J. - 2022
This study contributes to identifying common distress patterns in financial indicators by sector and country in Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain as well as ex-post signals of reorganization success. We use PDFR that provides a distance-to-failure measure and allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014359216
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Stalled-Growth SMEs and Directions for Policy
Cho, Deokhee - 2023
Recent research says 20 percent of Korean manufacturers are stalled-growth small and medium enterprises (SMEs), or companies that have been business for at least 20 years but have under 50 employees, with market factors causing 65 percent of such stagnation and the businesses themselves 35...
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