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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Foreign banks"”.
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Green Banking in Hong Kong: Exploring the Attitudes and Knowledge of Middle Tier Management in Foreign Banks
Hong Kong banks have exploited the concept of green banking to show commitment and support for environmental sustainability. Institutions have adopted the concept of green banking as a measure of environmental compliance and legitimacy to governments, regulators and society. The transition by banks …
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Chinese economic and financial reforms : implications for foreign financial institutions
Beginning in the late 1970s foreign banks were allowed to enter into China in line with the country's overall economic reform and opening up program. Recently, many of the world's larger banks have entered the Chinese market and have settled into a strong presence in China, mainly through branches, …
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Banking in Lebanon : an empirical investigation of performance, capitalisation and mergers
… focus on the differences between domestic and foreign banks. We study panel data of almost the entire population of Lebanese banks between 1993 and 2003 to analyse the (different) detenninants of domestic and foreign banks' profitability. Using the Fixed Effects Regression Model, we find that …
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Networks of Capital: German Bankers and the Financial Internationalisation of China (1885-1919)
… examines the hitherto neglected role foreign, and specifically German, bankers played in the Chinese economy and the history of modern economic globalisation in China during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. By following the history of the German Deutsch-Asiatische Bank (DAB) …
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The effects of foreign entry in banking sectors of transitional economies : The case of Slovakia
… quantitative and qualitative analysis of the foreign entry effects on domestic banking in Slovakia during the first eight years of the country's existence. The research results suggest that straightforward assessing of foreign entry effects is difficult as it largely depends on the specific …
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Essays on Indonesian Banking: Competition, Efficiency, and its Role in Monetary Policy Transmission
… In measuring the efficiency of the Indonesian banks, we find that the mean of cost-efficiency was in the range of 40%-50%. State-owned banks were found to be relatively more cost-efficient than foreign banks. The analysis suggests several conclusions about banking efficiency in Indonesia. …
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Three essays in governance and banking
… Data on firms borrowing from government-owned banks, and firms borrowing from a privatized bank suggest that privatization led to an improvement of 1 to 2 percent in the earnings-per-asset of firms financed by the privatized bank. Privatization influenced firms with weak outside options the …
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Essays on banking and corporate finance in developing countries
… empirical implications of open capital markets, foreign bank entry, and the role of bond markets during banking crises. Chapter 1 analyzes the impact of opening capital markets using a theoretical model that incorporates both foreign and domestic lenders in the presence of asymmetric information. …
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Essays on banking in developing countries
… Emerging Europe a region with one of the highest foreign bank presence in the world - to study the impact of foreign bank ownership and bank organizational structure on the cost of financial intermediation and terms of loan contracts. The last essay focuses on Kenya which is home to M-Pesa the …
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The effects of globalisation of financial services on banking industry and stock market: an Algerian case study
… fewer regulatory barriers towards local and foreign banks. This study demonstrates that financial liberalisation is the main force that drives the globalisation of financial services, followed by financial innovations and the Internet. Globalisation has affected the performance of the two …
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Foreign banking inflows, financial sector development and economic growth in ECOWAS and SADC
… and growth. Second, it investigates the role of foreign banks, inflation and openness in the state of financial development. The above are discussed in relation to a comparative study of regional economic blocs of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Southern African Development …
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Bank regulation, supervision and financial stability: An empirical study
… industry and, particularly, on the role of foreign banks in the transmission of shocks through the lending channel. Additionally, I investigate the banking stability through several indicators of a bank’s stand-alone risk, such as the bank’s z-score and the Merton’s (1974) distance to …
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Bank Ownership and Lending Behaviour
… First, it explores the lending behaviour of banks with different ownership types during normal and financial crisis periods, using bank-level data from 64 countries for the period of 2004-2013. The sampled banks are classified into foreign-owned, domestic-private and government-owned banks. …
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AN EXPLORATORY STUDY INTO THE ADOPTON OF INTERNET BANKING IN MAINLAND CHINA
… will be the main drivers for both Chinese banks and foreign banks to tap into the available of Chinese savings. The primary objective of this study is to integrate trust and uncertainty theoretically into the Decomposed Theory of Planned Behavior in investigating determinants that affect …
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The effect of pre- and post-merger factors on the performance of mergers in Libyan government banks
… the performance of mergers in Libyan government banks. Specifically, the study examines motivations behind Libyan banking mergers, and the influence of strategic fit, organisational cultural fit, speed of integration, and effectiveness of integration on the performance of mergers among Libyan …
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Wealth Effects of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act on Financial Services Industry
… the wealth effects of the GLBA on U.S. and foreign banks and insurance companies. This dissertation is composed of four separate essays. In the first two chapters I investigate the wealth effects of the GLBA on domestic banks and insurance companies. I find that Money Center Banks followed …
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ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL REFORMS AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN EMERGING MARKETS
… economy. The first chapter studies the impact of foreign bank deregulation on domestic firms' credit access and real outcomes in China, using an extensive firm-level data set from the manufacturing census. Following the deregulation policies implemented by the government in 2001, foreign banks …
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Performance Appraisal in China : an analysis of stakeholder perceptions in the Chinese State-owned Banking Industry
… Organisation (WTO), provided an opportunity for foreign banks to operate in China which, in turn, increased competition for Chinese banks. As the banking sector, particularly the state-owned banks, is an extremely sensitive area for the nation's economy, the contribution that performance …
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An examination of China's non-performing loan issue
… enterprises (SOEs), state-owned commercial banks (SOBs) and the fiscal system. Even though the total amount of NPLs in 1999 was estimated to be around 30% of the total outstanding loans of SOBs, the NPL problem in China would not lead to an immediate financial crisis as the NPL problem is …
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Marketing's role in successful new product development in commercial, investment and merchant banks
… (NPD) in commercial, investment and merchant banks. It examines how marketing inputs contribute to new product development success. NPD success can be measured at two levels of analysis - at the program and at the project level. Our study is concentrated at the program level at which sustained …
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