The returns on bank stocks rise and fall with the business cycle, making bank equity financing cheaper in the boom and …

. Microcredit plays a significant role in the process. The focus of this study was to understand the importance of the scale and … delivery models on the cost of microcredit and to examine the interest rates charged from the point of view of financial … microcredit, what really mattered was to have a lower per borrower operating cost and a higher ratio of high-yield assets to the …

the market price for domestic services. We exploit time-diary data for Great Britain and France, relying on cross … price measure. -- time use ; domestic work ; gender …

period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …

of individual banks. In particular, we analyse the value relevance of bank cost efficiency and total factor productivity …

We compute optimally diversified international asset portfolios for banks located in France, Germany, Italy, the U …

This paper reviews the market reaction to bank rescue packages announced in six countries between October 2008 and … shareholders as seen in the movement of bank stock prices. Government interventions benefited creditors at the expense of … shareholders, with bank CDS spreads narrowing around the announcements in all cases. Despite a brief positive reaction, bank stock …

become more important due to the heterogeneity in bank taxation rules across Europe: measuring the tax burden can provide a … taxation between Italy, France, Germany, Spain and the UK, the paper provides estimates for the tax burden and deferred tax … assets in these countries over the years 2006-2014; the impact of differences in taxation on bank profitability is also …

Tornqvist indices for six countries (Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy) over a period varying from 11 …