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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Private banks"”.
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An Investigation of the Effects of Intellectual Capital on Innovations in the Egyptian Banks: The Mediating Role of Organisational Capital
… to gather data from 198 managers in the Egyptian banks (54% response rate). Structural Equation Modelling by Partial Least Square (warp PLS 3.0) was applied to test the research hypotheses. The research findings indicate that product, process and organisational innovation are positively associated …
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Investigating the causes and effects of weak corporate governance that hinder successful performance of African National Development Banks: a case study of Development Bank of Zambia
… Governance in African National Development Banks is critical to their success or failure. These Banks have complex corporate governance structures with hierarchies comprising both national government representatives and in some cases the private sector. By focusing on election years this …
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Essays on debt recourse and financial inclusion
… by increasing the number of rural branches of private banks. Under this policy, private banks were required to open an equal number of rural branches whenever they opened urban branches. Using a unique dataset and employing difference-in-difference and event-study methods, the study finds …
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Banking sector of the Russian Federation : study of the correlation between commodity prices and key safety, soundness and performance indicators
… financial institutions. Large industrial and private banks that roamed the economy in the 90s all but disappeared, closed due to insolvency or absorbed by government banks. At the same time, close to 900 smaller private banks in the system together account for less than 7% of its total assets. …
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Risco Sistêmico do sistema bancário no Brasil
… tendency of the concentration of assets in few banks, which is detrimental to creditors and users. The objective of this paper is to measure and describe which Brazilian banks most contribute to the risk of the banking system, in case of default. The CoVar method used by Adrian and Brunnermeier …
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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 development and finance
… the lending decisions of government owned- banks, particularly whether government resources are used to achieve electoral goals. Theories of electoral competition predict how politicians may allocate resources to win elections: distributing more resources prior to election years, and …
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ON DERIVATIVES AND DERIVATIVES PRICING
… It explains and evaluates the two different ways private banks deal with derivatives products: the closed architecture where a bank sources for the derivatives in-house or with internal investment banks; the open architecture where a bank can source for the derivative or its components from third …
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Credit unions and competition in the brazilian financial intermediation system
Unlike traditional banks, the reform of credit unions in the national financial intermediation system did not have a specific program named and publicized nationally, as was the Program to Stimulate the Restructuring and Strengthening of the National Financial System (PROER – as is their acronym in …
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Credit scoring models for Egyptian banks : neural nets and genetic programming versus conventional techniques
… has been regarded as a core appraisal tool of banks during the last few decades, and has been widely investigated in the area of finance, in general, and banking sectors, in particular. In this thesis, the main aims and objectives are: to identify the currently used techniques in the Egyptian …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and Banking
… their debt within a smaller number of banks. I explain this using a model of bank competition in which creditworthy but informationally opaque firms have an incentive to establish a small number of concentrated lending relationships to facilitate information acquisition by their …
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The influence of employee turnover on organisational performance : a case of private bank South Africa
Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Masters of Management Sciences: Business Administration at the Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2022.
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Evolving Banking Systems in the CIS: Geopolitical Profiles, Business Models, Performance and Risk
… models shaped the development and resilience of banks in the region. Combining qualitative thematic analysis with quantitative econometric techniques, the study provides both contextual and empirical insights into the determinants of banking sector stability and performance. The research first …
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Essays on Sovereign Risk and Banking
… In the second essay we focus on European banks' sovereign bond exposures. By using a novel bank-level dataset covering the entire timeline of the Eurozone crisis, we first reconfirm that the crisi led to the reallocation of sovereign debt from foreign to domestic banks. This reallocation …
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
… crisis, conservative governments bailed out private banks with public funds. Liberal parties previously committed to ‘tax-cuts-always-work’ raised taxes across the board and social-democratic governments slashed public spending in the wake of the Great Recession. The dissertation also finds …
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Performance of Zambian Commercial Banks in the Post-Liberalisation Period: Evidence on Cost Efficiency, Competition and Market Power
… important of performance for Zambia commercial banks. Specifically, the thesis addresses the aspect of cost efficiency and the factors that affect inefficiency performance. The study also empirically answers the policy question regarding the banks' exercise of market power and the low degree of …
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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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Non-financial performance measurement in the Libyan commercial banking sector: four grounded theory case studies
… adopted and four case studies (two State owned banks and two private banks) were conducted. Each case study was analysed according to a structured set of coding procedures (based on the grounded theory approach of Strauss and Corbin, 1990) and substantive hypotheses emerged for each case study. …