This paper investigates the impact of banking sector concentration on financial stability, across a sample of 134 commercial banks from 17 countries of Central and Eastern Europe during the period 2007-2012. Empirical findings highlight the concentration-fragility hypothesis, indicating that a...

This paper investigates the impact of gender diversity on bank efficiency using a unique hand-collected dataset specific to a sample of 128 commercial banks from Central and Eastern European countries during the period 2005-2012. Robust findings that account for endogeneity indicate that the...

This paper investigates the impact of foreign currency (FX) denominated assets and liabilities on systemic risk using a unique hand-collected dataset of bank-level FX positions for the period 2005-2012. The sample consists of banks from Central and Eastern Europe with large share of FX exposures...