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"Does too much competition in banking hurt society? What policies can best protect and stabilize banking without stifling it? Institutional responses to such questions have evolved over time, from interventionist regulatory control after the Great Depression to the liberalization policies that...
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This paper examines the relationship between changes in the financial sector and the increasing inequality in Germany. For this, first an overview about the development of the main inequality indicators for Germany is given, which show inequality has been rising since the 1980s. Thereafter, the...
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The aim of this paper is analyzing the evolution of the Brazilian credit market from 2003 to 2011 and its impact on inequality in Brazil. The arguments are organized as follows. After an introductory section, the second one presents the determinants and the general trends of the banking credit...
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dependence in the bank cost efficiency rankings constructed with the revaluations being kept or dropped. We relate this … show that the revaluations are positively associated with (corporate) bank lending. We then find that keeping the … revaluations when estimating bank cost efficiency leads to a misleading conclusion that the credit market is inefficient; we show …
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We study the differential impact of exchange rate volatility on cost efficiency and market structure when banks have non-trivial exposures to foreign currency operations. First, we document that cost efficiency estimates are both severely downward biased by 30% on average and generally not rank...
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We analyze bank survival on large dataset covering 17 CEE markets during the period of 2007-2015 by estimating the Cox … progress in banking reforms positively affects bank survival. During global financial crisis, banking reform progress is not … determinants is largest for average banks measured by their soundness. Financial indicators predict bank survival rate with …
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This paper exploits the Financial Accounts of the United States to derive long time series of bank and nonbank credit … cycle, (ii) recessions and recoveries, and (iii) systemic financial crises. We find that bank and nonbank credit exhibit … different dynamics throughout the business cycle. This diverging cyclical behavior of output and bank and nonbank credit argues …
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This paper describes a financial system that should be adopted for the 21st century. The paper highlights that the financial crisis of 2008 has raised fundamental questions about how the financial industry is structured, managed, and regulated. The paper discusses that a well-functioning...
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