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Agriculture is a fundamental economic activity in Macedonia which constitutes 10% of GDP over the past decade, adding related processing industry increases this share to approximately 15%-16%. During the last period of economic restructuring, agriculture played a critical role in the social and...
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The New Economic Geography (NEG) literature has paid little attention to the role of the banking industry in affecting … explore this issue, we modify the standard Footloose Entrepreneur (FE) model by introducing a banking sector, while preserving … all the other usual assumptions. We show that the existence of a banking sector enhances the agglomeration forces; so that …
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Contractual savings for housing (Bausparkassen) with narrow ranges of tariff plans are used to coexist with banking …
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Scenario Analysis (SA) plays a key role in determination of operational risk capital under Basel II Advanced Measurement Approach. However, operational risk capital based on scenario data may exhibit high sensitivity or wrong-way sensitivity to scenario inputs. In this paper, we first discuss...
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2011. The Malaysian Islamic banking industry has grown tremendously in terms of assets, deposits and total financing over …
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This paper examines the impact of access to microfinance on consumption inequality using panel data of 6080 households available from a randomized evaluation conducted by Banerjee et al. (2013) in 104 slums in Andhra Pradesh, India. We find that access to microcredit exacerbates consumption...
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The aim of this paper is to examine the impact on the banking system from the accession of Macedonia in the EU. EU … member country, and the banking system as a part of it, faces with the challenge of integration in the EU financial system …. The best evidence of the EU accession impact on the banking system is the analysis of the basic characteristics of banking …
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We empirically investigate the effects of fiscal policy on bank balance sheets, focusing on episodes of fiscal consolidation. To this aim, we employ a very rich data set of individual banks' balance sheets, combined with a newly compiled data set on fiscal consolidations. We find that standard...
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This paper explores the impact of M&A on technical efficiency of Indian commercial banks during the second decade of reforms. We use DEA to compute the relative technical efficiency of banks that participated in M&A activities. The technical efficiency is computed under both 'common' and...
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Banks Group) was highly active in introducing ICT to retail banking. In this environment, Nordic savings banks, Sweden … influence that the ICT development models of Nordic savings banks had on their European retail banking associates. …
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