This paper seeks to answer the question of how banking regulation can contribute to environmental sustainability objectives. The 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and 2015 Paris Climate Change Treaty place climate action and environmental challenges as central to the required...

This article uses a hand-collected sample of 733 projects from seven leading U.S.-based real estate crowdfunding (RECF) platforms. We analyze whether property, financing, and crowdfunding campaign characteristics, as well as information risk, can explain the expected returns of RECF campaigns...

This paper examines the effects of state ownership and government interventions on lending behavior and capitalization of banks over the period 2005-2011. Using data from the highly state-influenced Russian banking sector, it is documented that the relationship between state ownership and...

Policy advocates argue the case for the transformation of non-government Microfinance Organizations (MFOs) into shareholder owned firms. The argument is that this will bring about superior performance. This paper investigates whether the superiority of shareholder owned MFOs is empirically...

New econometric evidence is provided to identify the determinants of the rapid credit growth in Bulgaria and evaluate whether the credit boom has increased bank fragility, based on a panel data analysis of 30 Bulgarian banks over the 1999-2006 period. Employing Fixed effects and GMM estimation...

This paper is motivated by high levels of non-performing loans in the Zimbabwean banking sector since dollarization in 2009. Banks are well known for their function of providing liquidity in the economy. Normal loan awarding require credit analysis. Credit analysis is undertaken to assess the...

The Foreign Exchange Department of a bank performs foreign exchange operations as well as transactions. The main function of a forex department is to handle foreign inward remittances as well as outward remittances as well as buying and selling of foreign currencies. In some cases, Foreign...

In this study, using the World Bank's Bank Regulation and Supervision Survey (BRSS) data, we draw insights about the bank regulatory/supervisory styles, illustrate the differences in regulation/supervision among crisis, non-crisis and BRICS countries, and highlight the ways in which bank...