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 …

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 …

addition, rapid progress in bank privatization and consolidation took place in the late 1990s and early 2000s, usually with the … and turbulence accompanied by repeated bank crises. However, governments in many transition countries learned from these … tumultuous experiences and eventually dealt successfully with the accumulated bad loans and lack of strong bank regulation. In …

This article analyses the effects of the bank restructuring process performed in Spain between 2010 and 2016. First, we … Bank of Spain. Second, we investigate whether these reforms affected (i) the stability, (ii) the degree of competition, and … instability. On the other hand, the increasing bank market power fostered financial stability (i.e., lower risk-taking behaviour …

distress. Using data aggregated at the US county-level, we show that allowing an in-state bank to open branches anywhere within …

-indexed loans, leaving unhedged bank customers exposed to potential swings in exchange rates or foreign interest rates …

We examine the interactions of bank lending dynamics, ownership structures and crisis phenomena in the banking systems … 2010, we show that the impact of ownership structure on a bank's lending activities in CEE countries was conditional upon … indicates that bank-specific characteristics, such as deposit growth and profitability ratios, are important determinants of …