sharing on the volume of private credit by examining unique bank-level panel data from Ukraine, a transition economy where … volume effect of information sharing when information sharing takes place through the central bank-administered public credit … registry. In contrast, information sharing through private credit bureaus is associated with an increase in the volume of bank …

We investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). We … assess to what extent the relatively high bank margins in CEEC can be attributed to low efficiency or non-competitive market …

progress in banking reforms, privatization and corporate governance restructuring, also has a positive impact on bank … of bank efficiency further show that foreign banks are associated with higher profit efficiency but moderately lower cost …

This study investigates the link between bank lending behavior and country-level instability. Our dynamic model of bank …'s profit maximization predicts a non-monotonic relationship between bank lending and macroeconomic uncertainty. We test this … lending ratio in times of substantial economic volatility, which could be explained by higher risk aversion of bank managers …

explain those particularities by the different methods of banking sector privatization, the different approaches for solving …