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Should the government be in the banking business? : The role of state-owned and development banks
Levy Yeyati, Eduardo (contributor);  … - 2004
previously thought. -- Banking ; Privatization ; State-owned banks ; Financial development ; Latin America …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002824329
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State-owned commercial banks
Panizza, Ugo - 2021
statistically significant). Looking at financial instability, the paper finds that banking crises predict increases in state …-ownership but that there is no evidence that high state-ownership predicts banking crises. Focusing on bank performance, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012590347
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A reappraisal of State-Owned Banks
Levy-Yeyat, Eduardo; Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)
We revisit the public banks debate, survey the theoretical arguments and test the robustness (and expand) the existing empirical evidence. While we find some support for the view that public banks do not allocate credit optimally, we also report indicative evidence that they exert a positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021313
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State-owned commercial banks
Panizza, Ugo - 2021
statistically significant). Looking at financial instability, the paper finds that banking crises predict increases in state …-ownership but that there is no evidence that high state-ownership predicts banking crises. Focusing on bank performance, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606378
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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms : Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization - as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217607
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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms : Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2021
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization - as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325350
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Determinants of commercial banks' lending behavior : evidence from Turkey
Tomak, Serpil - In: Asian Journal of Empirical Research 3 (2013) 8, pp. 933-943
This paper studies the bank-level (size and access to funds) and market-based (interest rate, inflation rate, GDP) variables’ impact on bank lending behavior in Turkey using quarterly bank level data of 15 private commercial banks and 3 state-owned banks for the 2003-2012 period. The empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009788619
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Bank ownership around the world
Panizza, Ugo - 2023
This paper builds a dataset on bank ownership that covers more than 6,500 banks in 181 countries (59 low-income economies, 72 middle-income economies, and 50 high-income economies) over 1995-2020. I show that until 2010, there was a reduction in state-ownership of banks and an increase foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249625
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Recent trends in bank privatization
Bertay, Ata Can; Calice, Pietro; Diaz Kalan, Federico … - 2020
This paper revisits trends in bank privatization and analyzes their economic impact over the past 25 years. Building on … a novel data set of privatization events for 70 developed and developing countries, it shows that bank privatization … smaller in that the fraction of a bank's ownership relinquished during privatization events declined. The majority of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257325
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The effects of privatization and consolidation on bank productivity : comparative evidence from Italy and Germany
Fiorentino, Elisabetta; Vincenzo, Alessio De; Heid, Frank; … - 2009
The Italian and German banking systems shared similar characteristics early in the 1990s but have evolved in different … subsequently merged with other banks. German banks were still able to increase their productivity through consolidation. -- Banking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003813058