Turkish Banking Act exempts certain bank mergers from the Turkish merger control regime. With this legislation, a large number of the potential bank merger are exempted from obtaining the permission from the Turkish Competition Authority. Turkish Competition Authority and international...

We provide a detailed classification of core and non-core liabilities for the Turkish banking system à laShin and Shin (2010). We further carry out a two-stage liquidity stress test similar to Van Den End (2010) where we simulate inflow and outflow factors as well as the network topology of...

After the systemic effects of bank defaults during the recent financial crisis, and despite a huge amount of literature over the last years to detect systemic risk, no standard methodologies have been set up until now. We aim to build a concise but comprehensive picture of the state of the art,...

We model the choice of loan currency in a framework which features a trade-off between lower cost of debt and the risk of firm-level distress costs. Under perfect information, if foreign currency funds come at a lower interest rate, all foreign currency earners as well as those local currency...

The Euro Crisis has stopped the process of the European financial integration and triggered a strong repatriation of debt from foreign to domestic investors. We investigate this empirical pattern in light of competing theories of cross-border portfolio allocation. Three empirical regularities...

The current economic crisis has highlighted that a well-functioning financial system is significantly important for economic growth. This study investigated factors affecting housing finance supply in Albania. Housing Finance is a major factor determining the quality and tenure of housing...

The financial – banking institutions draw up price setting strategies for the purpose of reaching some objectives of the price policy such as: increasing or maintaining the market share or the intention to dominate the market under economical recession conditions. This paperwork presents six...

The ability to predict bank failure has become much more important since the mortgage foreclosure crisis began in 2007. The model proposed in this study uses proxies for the regulatory standards embodied in the so-called CAMELS rating system, as well as several local or national economic...

The microcredits are short-term loans and/or micro ventures with a small amount of money given to poor people in order to contribute to poverty reduction. In the last few years, there has been a fast growth in microcredits programmes; experts wonder whether those loans are reaching the poor...

A bankok versenyképességének elemzésére elterjedt hagyományos módszerek (SWOT-, CAMEL-elemzés) helyett ez a tanulmány az árazásban, a kamatokban és a kamatrés alakulásában tükröződő piaci viselkedésre összpontosít. E tényezők megváltozását vizsgálva a kilencvenes...