In this paper, we present indirect evidence that the IMF’s insistence on foreign control of two large nationwide Korean banks in exchange for short-term support during the 1997 financial crisis helped restrain soft related lending practices. News signaling the likely sale of a bank to a...

A magyar bankrendszerben a kilencvenes évek elején ugrásszerűen megnőtt a rossz hitelek állománya. A szerzők empirikus adatokra támaszkodva amellett érvelnek, hogy ez nem a flowprobléma kiéleződésének, vagyis a rossz hitelezési gyakorlat folytatásának volt a következménye....

Using data from 1996 to 2000, we investigate the effects of ownership, especially by a strategic foreign owner, on bank efficiency for eleven transition countries in an unbalanced panel consisting of 225 banks and 856 observations. Applying stochastic frontier estimation procedures, we compute...

To investigate the impact of bank privatization in transition countries, we take the largest banks in six relatively advanced countries, namely, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Income and balance sheet characteristics are compared across four bank ownership...