This paper investigates the determinants of financial deepening across regions in Indonesia after the institutional reforms which brought the country to become more decentralized. Using provincial-level data for 33 provinces from 2004 to 2010, we find that poor local governance significantly...

Using detailed ownership data for a sample of European commercial banks, we analyze the link between ownership structure and risk in both privately owned and publicly held banks. We consider five categories of shareholders that are specific to our dataset. We find that ownership structure is...

[fre] La concurrence accrue, la restructuration mais aussi l'harmonisation prudentielle à l'échelle internationale des conditions d'activités dans l'industrie bancaire oblige à s'interroger sur d'éventuelles spécificités de la réaction des systèmes bancaires à l'évolution des taux...

[fre] L'objet de cet article est d'apporter quelques éléments de réponse empiriques sur le rôle joué par les agences de notation dans l'exercice d'une discipline de marché accrue des banques et autres intermédiaires financiers. L'approche de l'économétrie événementielle est adoptée...

[eng] The propose of this paper is to analyse bank behaviour in Central and Eastern Europe relative to their interest margin setting. A formalisation through a framework where decisions are taken under imperfect competition and uncertainty underlines the role of credit and maturity risks and...

Using an innovative approach of following the downgrade or credit rating decisions by rating agencies, this paper develops an early-warning system of bank financial distress and critically evaluates the reliability and stability of the potential indicators or factors of banks in 13 emerging...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact on bank stock prices of the Asian and Russian financial crises for a sample of European banks. This issue is of importance regarding financial fragility and contagion effects within the banking industry. We develop an event study methodology based...