sharing on the volume of private credit by examining unique bank-level panel data from Ukraine, a transition economy where … volume effect of information sharing when information sharing takes place through the central bank-administered public credit … registry. In contrast, information sharing through private credit bureaus is associated with an increase in the volume of bank …

progress in banking reforms, privatization and corporate governance restructuring, also has a positive impact on bank … of bank efficiency further show that foreign banks are associated with higher profit efficiency but moderately lower cost …

We investigate the determinants of bank interest margins in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC). We … assess to what extent the relatively high bank margins in CEEC can be attributed to low efficiency or non-competitive market …

The financial services sectors of Romania and Estonia moved towards privatization in sharply contrasting manners. For a … paper; few steps were made towards its fulfillment. By contrast, Estonia's experience of privatization was generally a …

the international best practices in bank governance and regulation and listing of major banks at the Hong Kong stock … rather than fundamental change in banker’s incentives. Reforms of bank governance and regulatory framework need more time to …