This study empirically investigates the impact of country-level determinants and banking sectorspecific characteristics on the volatility of cross-border bank lending in the face of financial crises. Employing data on international bank lending between 13 industrialized countries and 51 emerging...

Employing data on bank claims from 13 OECD countries vis-à-vis 51 emerging markets between 1993 and 2007 this study provides empirical evidence that monopolistic banks from OECD countries tend to ration credit to emerging markets whereas increasing competitive pressure may spur cross-border...

Using data on 13 OECD and 51 emerging markets between 1993 and 2007, this study investigates country-level and bank-specific determinants of foreign bank lending. We provide empirical evidence that both the macroeconomic and institutional environment are strong determinants of foreign bank...

In this paper we describe the principles of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and its expanding use in molecular genetic research and molecular medicine. A short introduction of exemplary applications of the PCR is connected with a discussion of the lack of PCR accuracy. We give a statistical...

Improving the regulation of banks has been at the center of economic policy actions since the outbreak of the global financial crisis. One of the many and conceptually very different measures proposed is to improve the corporate governance of banks by setting qualification standards for banks'...

Purpose – More than two decades after the early works about Business Process Management (BPM) were published by the discipline's thought-leaders of that time, the authors were interested in getting an assessment of what BPM has been able to achieve so far, what promises have been fulfilled,...