Banking on Politics: When Former High-ranking Politicians Become Bank Directors
in The World Bank Economic Review
June 2010; p ublished online June 2010 .
Journal Article. Subjects: International Financial Markets; Banking; Capitalist Systems. 16586 words.
New data are presented for a large number of countries on how frequently former high-ranking politicians become bank directors. Politician-banker connections at this level are relatively...
The effects of general and firm-specific training on wages and performance: evidence from banking
in Oxford Economic Papers
January 2012; p ublished online April 2011 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Demand and Supply of Labour; Economics; Capitalist Systems; Banking. 9301 words.
Using new panel data for Finnish co-operative banks we study the impact of training on wages and performance. To our knowledge, this is the first paper to compare explicitly the effects of...
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Financialisation varied: a comparative analysis of advanced economies
in Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society
November 2013; p ublished online August 2013 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Economywide Country Studies; Banking; Capitalist Systems; Economic Methodology. 9841 words.
Financialisation remains an unclear term in social science. We deploy a Marxist framework to establish that financialisation represents a structural transformation of advanced capitalist...
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How do Russian depositors discipline their banks? Evidence of a backward bending deposit supply function
in Oxford Economic Papers
January 2010; p ublished online April 2009 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Banking; Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies; Economic Development. 10512 words.
Using a database from post-communist, pre-deposit-insurance Russia, we demonstrate the presence of quantity-based sanctioning of weaker banks by both firms and households. Evidence for the...
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Microfinance Banks and Financial Inclusion
in Review of Finance
May 2016; p ublished online July 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Banking; Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behaviour; Economic Development; Socialist Institutions and their Transitions. 17710 words.
We examine how the geographical proximity to a microfinance bank affects financial inclusion. We study the expansion of the branch network of ProCredit banks in South-East Europe between...
Social Capital and the Viability of Stakeholder-Oriented Firms: Evidence from Savings Banks
in Review of Finance
August 2016; p ublished online October 2015 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Capitalist Systems; Economic Sociology; Banking; Corporate Governance. 20807 words.
We show that social capital improves the viability of stakeholder-oriented firms operating in competitive markets. Studying exits from the population of Norwegian savings banks after...
Using Index-Based Risk Transfer Products to Facilitate Micro Lending in Peru and Vietnam
in American Journal of Agricultural Economics
December 2007; p ublished online December 2007 .
Journal Article. Subjects: Socialist Institutions and their Transitions; Environmental Economics; Banking; Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity; Economic Development. 4028 words.
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