This study aims to investigate the intricate relationship between intellectual capital and asset quality within the context of the Turkish banking sector to determine the optimal level of intellectual capital investment that can enhance the asset quality of deposit banks. The study relies on...

This study responds to the need for deeper empirical investigation into the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and financial performance in the banking industry. Specifically, it investigates whether and how CSR performance and social values influence bank performance....

This paper uses data from commercial banks and nonfinancial listed firms in Vietnam from 2007 to 2022 to address the effect of banking uncertainty on firms' trade credit. We find that trade credit increases with heightened uncertainty in the banking sector, which is more conspicuous in...

The Portuguese and Spanish banking system, in the framework of the economic and financial crisis suffered a significant reduction in the profitability of its banking business. Taking into consideration the problem of profitability in the banking sector at a global level, some studies have been...

We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export...

Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the demand for insurance is too low to deploy voluntarily sustainable schemes, alternative...

Offering health coverage to informal workers and their families is an ongoing and major challenge in most Sub-Saharan countries. As anchoring insurance to employment contracts is not possible and the demand for insurance is too low to deploy voluntarily sustainable schemes, alternative...

We analyze gender bias in entrepreneurship finance. Access to finance is crucial for entrepreneurial success, yet women are particularly constrained. We structurally unpack whether loan officers evaluate business ideas and implementation constraints differently for male and female entrepreneurs,...

Studies of intermediated arbitrage argue that bank balance sheets are an important consideration, yet little evidence exists on banks' positioning in this context. Using confidential supervisory data (covering $25 trillion in daily notional exposures) we examine banks' positions in connection...

This paper investigates whether and how the COVID-19 pandemic affects bank funding costs in China. We find a significantly positive relationship between the offering yields of negotiable certificates of deposit and banks’ pandemic exposure. The surge in bank funding costs is alleviated by...