We investigate the impact of local banking market concentration on small and medium-sized enterprises' access to finance in Ukraine, as an under-researched case of a country where crime and corruption rates are high. We combine firm-level observations from the EBRD's BEEPS survey with unique,...

We investigate the impact of cross-border takeovers on target banks' profitability, efficiency, and market share in Ukraine, an exemplar of a country with poor institutional quality. We rely on a combination of propensity score matching with the difference-in-difference methodology, and our main...

We investigate foreign banks' interest in financing small and medium sized enterprises in Ukraine, a country where massive foreign bank entry took place in a late stage of transition. We use unique, self-collected bank-level data on banks' involvement with SMEs in 2004, 2006, 2009, and 2010. We...

We use logit analysis to exploit a self-collected dataset on the payment and delivery options offered by the vast majority of B2C websites in 5 Central Asian transition economies. Specifically, we conduct a supply-side test of the Transaction Context Model, which highlights the role of perceived...

We use logit analysis to exploit a self-collected dataset on the payment and delivery options offered by the vast majority of B2C websites in five Central Asian transition economies. Specifically, we conduct a supply-side test of (elements of) the Transaction Context Model, which highlights the...