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The Effect of Globalization on Efficiency Change, Technological Progress and the Productivity Growth of U.S. Small and Large Banks
Mehdian, Seyed M. - 2010
A non-parametric approach is used to examine the effects of globalization and deregulation on the efficiency and … efficient than small banks for most efficiency indices in both years. However, despite globalization, deregulation, and the … gains in technology and productivity, there was a decrease in overall efficiency for both large and small banks in 2003 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148964
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Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants
Demirer, Mert; Karaduman, Ömer - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
effects of acquisitions on efficiency and underlying mechanisms. We find a 2% average increase in efficiency for acquired … plants, beginning five months after acquisitions. Efficiency gains rise to 5% under direct ownership changes, with no … significant change when only parent ownership changes. Investigating the mechanisms, three-quarters of the efficiency gain is …
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The Geography of Dollar Funding of Non-US Banks
Aldasoro, Iñaki - 2019
Where do non-US banks obtain the funding for the large amount of US dollars they lend? Traditionally, their branches and subsidiaries in the United States were a major source of dollar funding, but the role of these affiliates has declined. Instead, dollars are increasingly raised in the home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894866
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Diversification and Specialization of U.S. States
Koech, Janet - 2017
This paper documents the evolution of the international relationships of individual U.S. states along three dimensions: trade, migration, and finance. We examine how specialized or diversified state economies differ in terms of the products they export and with whom they trade, the origins of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968002
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Personal Ethics & the U.S. Financial Collapse of 2007-08
Trautman, Lawrence J. - 2017
The seeds for the 2007-09 financial collapse were sewn over many years and nurtured by ill-advised governmental housing policy, the presence of pervasive fraud both large and small and the widespread failure of personal integrity. A chronology of bad choices made by individuals and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972692
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Global Banks and Syndicated Loan Spreads : Evidence from U.S. Banks
Liu, Edith X. - 2017
This paper explores the relationship between bank global exposure and their syndicated loan spreads. Linking syndicated loan information from Dealscan with confidential US bank foreign exposure data and borrower characteristics, we find that more bank global exposure is associated with a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965831
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On the Impact of Financial, Newspaper, and Twitter-Based Uncertainty on U.S. Banks : A Comparative Multi-Scale Analysis
Bales, Stephan; Burghof, Hans-Peter - 2022
This study examines the multi-scale impact of financial, newspaper, and Twitter-based uncertainty on bank stock returns in the United States. By combining Principal Component Analysis and Discrete Wavelet Transformation, we estimate directional spillover and causality for different time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405937
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EU and U.S. Solutions to Systemic Risk and Their Potential Influence on a World Trade Organization Approach
Austrin-Willis, Benjamin - 2013
As the 2008 financial crisis spread globally, it became widely apparent that an essential ingredient to preventing future systemic crises was reform of the regulation of financial markets. Two ambitious initiatives for regulatory reform are the European Union's European System of Financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014186176
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I spy with my little eye... a banking crisis : early warnings and incentive schemes in banks
Hakenes, Hendrik; Schlegel, Friederike - 2014
conditions deteriorate when lenders notice an upcoming crisis. We discuss policies to improve information efficiency and give …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467356