Ratings stehen derzeit im Brennpunkt der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit, vorrangig wegen der unter dem Schlagwort "Basel II" bekannt gewordenen Planungen des Basler Ausschusses für Bankenaufsicht. Bereits die ersten Fassungen der Konsultationspapiere haben für erhebliche Diskussionen gesorgt und...

Die gründliche Überprüfung der Kreditwürdigkeit eines Vertragspartners ist keineswegs ein Novum auf den Finanzmärkten, sondern wird in ihren Grundzügen schon seit Jahrhunderten unter Kaufleuten vor Eingehung von Geschäftsbeziehungen praktiziert. Dies zeigt sich z. B. in zeitgenössischer...

If there were no impediments to the flow of capital across space, then interest rates would equalized. We provide evidence to the contrary. We find significant differences in interest rates across the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, i.e. evidence that financial markets are fragmented. We also...

We empirically analyze the competition between a relationship lender and a transaction lender in the credit business with micro and small entrepreneurs. Drawing on a data set about the customers of the relationship lender ProCredit Ecuador combined with data about all other loans of these...

Access to finance is a prerequisite for economic development. Existing studies measure access by the use of finance. We develop a direct measurement for access to finance from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey 2005 data. We determine whether a firm without a loan does...

Does financial sector foreign direct investment (FSFDI) trigger general capital inflows and foreign trade? Do these inflows to New EU Member States (NMS) provide positive signals (Spence, 1973) towards economic development or crowd out investment and trade? While the direct impact of financial...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of medium- and long-term participation in microcredit programs. It utilises a new and large panel dataset collected from treatment and control households from 1997 to 2005. The data enables us to identify continuing participants in the...

The basic objective of the paper is to identify the effectiveness of group lending based microfinance programme operating through Primary Agricultural Credit Society to improve the economic condition among the rural participants in two blocks of Hooghly district in West Bengal. Here to do the...

This paper proposes an empirical model framework to analyze the management behavior that is crucial at the outset of financial deregulations and/or crisis. In a learning model setting, the proposed framework shows that management efficiency is a function of conditional hateroschedasticity of...