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Foreign Bank Lending and Information Asymmetries in China

Pessarossi, Pierre; Godlewski, Christophe J.; Weill, Laurent - Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion (LaRGE), Institut … - 2011

This paper considers whether information asymmetries affect the willingness of foreign banks to participate in syndicated loans to corporate borrowers in China. In line with theoretical literature, ownership concentration of the borrowing firm is assumed to influence information asymmetries in...

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Bank Integration and Transmission of Financial Shocks: Evidence from Japan

Imai, Masami; Takarabe, Seitaro - In: American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 3 (2011) 1, pp. 155-83

This paper investigates whether banking integration plays an important role in transmitting financial shocks across …

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Financial Integration and Growth - Is Emerging Europe Different?

Friedrich, Christian; Schnabel, Isabel; Zettelmeyer, Jeromin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using industry-level data, this paper shows that the European transition region benefited much more strongly from financial integration in terms of economic growth than other developing countries in the years preceding the current crisis. We analyze several factors that may explain this finding:...

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Credit Supply and the Price of Housing

Favara, Giovanni; Imbs, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We show that since 1994, branching deregulations in the U.S have significantly affected the supply of mortgage credit, and ultimately house prices. With deregulation, the number and volume of originated mortgage loans increase, while denial rates fall. But the deregulation has no effect on a...

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How Should Financial Intermediation Services be Taxed?

Lockwood, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper considers the optimal taxation of savings intermediation and payment services in a dynamic general equilibrium setting, when the government can also use consumption and income taxes. When payment services are used in strict proportion to final consumption, and the cost of...

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Does Gender Affect Funding Success at the Peer-to-Peer Credit Markets?: Evidence from the Largest German Lending Platform

Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

Studies of peer-to-peer lending in the USA find that female borrowers have better chances of getting funds than males. Is differential treatment of borrowers of different sexes a common feature of peer-to-peer lendingmarkets or is it subject to specific businessmodels, ways of fixing loan...

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How SMEs Exploit Their Intellectual Property Assets: Evidence from Survey Data

Rassenfosse, Gaétan de - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2010

This paper seeks to understand how motives to patent affect the use of the patent portfolio with a particular focus on motives aimed at the monetization of intellectual property (IP). The analysis relies on data from an international survey conducted by the European Patent Office (EPO). The main...

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Islamic house financing:current models and a proposal from social perspective

Hasan, Zubair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Shelter is one of the basic needs for human beings. Its availability for the people is an Islamic imperative. In view of the appalling living conditions for a substantial proportion of population in most countries around the world, especially Muslim, Islamic banks have entered the field with...

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Evaluating the Efficiency of Vietnamese Banking System: An Application Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Ngo, Dang Thanh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Over the last twenty years in Vietnam, the financial system in general and the banking system in particular had been …. Within these past years, the banking system in Vietnam did gradually developed in number of banking institutions, size of the … banking sector in the economy, amount of credits for the economy, and amount of other banking services as well. Along with the …

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MONITORING IN CREDIT INSTITUTIONS – COMPARATIVE APPROACH ON INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEMS – THE CASE OF ROMANIA VS. INTERNATIONAL MODELS OF CONTROL

CRISTINA, STEFANESCU; MARIANA, MURESAN; CRISTINA, BOTA-AVRAM - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 1, pp. 589-594

Starting from the stipulations of the two well-known internal control system models – COSO and CoCo - the purpose of this paper is to focus on the Romanian framework for credit institutions – trying to to identify on which international model ) is our national one most appropriate to. The...

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