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This paper studies the dynamics of the bank efficiency in Bulgaria in the years 1923 and 1928. In the course of … crisis and the financial stabilization. Official bank balance sheets were used as well as the profit and loss statements of … deficiencies in the traditional accounting measurement of bank efficiency, which has made it very popular in latest literature. To …
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The pace of transition in China over the last two decades has led to great variation across the country in terms of institutional and financial development. In this paper, using a panel of Chinese provinces during the period 1993-2006, we empirically investigate the determinants of the...
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This article is a brief review of developments in the banking sector in Bulgaria as well as an analysis of the … abandonment of the 'monobank' system. In particular, the bank consolidation process, the 'bad debt' problem, and the 1996 banking … highlighted. Finally, a brief overview is included of both the political and economic stabilization in Bulgaria up until the end …
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of bank efficiency further show that foreign banks are associated with higher profit efficiency but moderately lower cost … progress in banking reforms, privatization and corporate governance restructuring, also has a positive impact on bank …
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The paper tries to measure institutional change in the banking industry, taking the case of Russia in 1991-2016. I put forward a set of metrics featuring the actors and the relevance of banking for the economy. At the first stage, the communist-era credit system falls apart as do coordination...
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Low spreads between loan rates and deposit rates are indicative of a more efficient financial system. We argue that spreads are better cross country measures of banking system efficiency than the net interest margins used in previous studies. We present theoretical and empirical evidence that...
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the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
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the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
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