This paper presents empirical support for the existence of wealth effects in the contribution of financial intermediation to economic growth, and offers a theoretical explanation for these effects. Using GMM dynamic panel data techniques applied to study the growth-promoting effects of financial...

We examine the impact of liquidity shocks by exploiting cross-bank liquidity variation induced by unanticipated nuclear tests in Pakistan. We show that for the same firm borrowing from two different banks, its loan from the bank experiencing a 1 percent larger decline in liquidity drops by an...

The most present articles adopted the output-oriented Malmquist productivity index (OM) for estimating the production efficiency and productivity of Bank. Based on the method of Yang and Lee (2009), the research provides the new way to discuss cost efficiency and cost growth rate of Taiwanese...

Credit risk measurement and management become more important in all financial institutions in the light of the current financial crisis and the global recession. This particularly applies to most of the complex structured financing forms whose risk cannot be quantified with com-mon rating...

This paper analyzes capital market reactions to international bank M&A. We investigate combined stock return patterns of targets, bidders, and their peers upon takeover announcement, and closing or withdrawal. We distinguish five common M&A hypotheses and relate characteristic and mutually...

One of the risks that banks need to manage, in their financial intermediation activities, is liquidity risk. Thus, banks hold reserves for precautionary reasons, in order to keep enough cash to meet their obligations. In this work, we analyze the demand for excess reserves by Euro Area banks,...

The paper presents a new banking product having as main goal in offering some attractive income packages to construction workers and specialists. The purpose is to maintain this workforce into the country’s borders. Our national economy isn’t yet in a position to offer salaries like those...

Conceived as an empirical study, the paper investigates investors’ behavior as a reaction to the publication of financial statements by the three commercial banks listed on Bucharest Stock Exchange (B.S.E.): BRD, BCC and TLV. Starting from the general framework of an event study analysis...