This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data … on 37 countries from 1996-2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market (1) during the financial … insurance; and (4) in countries that have lower bank-level disclosure. The results hold for both emerging and developed economy …

volatility, we find that firms with high stock price fragility pay higher bank loan costs than firms with low fragility. This …

This paper examines bank credit growth in emerging markets before, during, and after the 2008-09 financial crisis using … bank-level data, focusing on the role of bank ownership. Credit growth by foreign banks lagged behind that of domestic …

SME loans across foreign, private, and government-owned banks, even though different bank ownership types apply different …

significantly influencing the risk-taking attitudes of bank managers. Particularly, we intend to substantiate the theory that banks … banking sectors due to a missing ability to monitor bank managers. Our results underline that these problems appear to mislead … bank managers showing an unreasonable risk-taking behavior. In a first stage, we rely on a theoretical model explaining …