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Cross-country comparisons of competition and pricing power in European banking
2009
Abstract Studies of banking competition and competitive behavior both within and across countries typically utilise only one of the few measures that are available. In trying to assess the relative competitive position of banking markets in 14 European countries, existing indicators of competition are found to give conflicting predictions across countries, within countries, and over time. This is because indicators of competition tend to measure different things and are additionally influenced by cross-country differences in cost efficiency, fee income levels, real economic growth and inflation. We attempt to separate bank pricing power from these embodied influences and derive more consist…
Revisiting the quiet life hypothesis in banking using nonparametric techniques
2014
Early studies testing the quiet life hypothesis in banking found strong evidence that banks in more concentrated markets exhibit lower cost efficiency levels. More recent studies have reexamined the issue in different contexts, with mixed results. These approaches are based on stipulating a linear re- lationship between market power and efficiency in banking, which might be problematic, as suggested by the literature on efficiency analysis. We explore how bank cost efficiency measures are related to market power using flexible techniques, which are more consistent with those employed to measure efficiency in the first stage of the analysis. Our study focuses on the Spanish banking industry,…
Structural reforms in a debt overhang
2014
We assess the effects of reforms in product and labor markets in a model economy featuring credit restrictions and pre-existing long-term debt. Both elements, which are core features of the current scenario faced by some euro area countries, combine to produce a slow and protracted deleveraging of the private sector and a persistent recession following a negative financial shock. In this environment, we show that product and labor market reforms may stimulate output and employment even in the short run, despite their defl ationary effects. Furthermore, by favoring a faster recovery of investment and collateral values, product market reforms bring forward the end of deleveraging and the exit…
¿Quién paga, quién gana? El caso de la venta del BdV
2016
ResumenEl proceso de venta del Banco de Valencia gestionado por el FROB duró 10 días. La venta se adjudicó a CaixaBank por un euro después de recibir 5.500 millones de fondos públicos. El informe de Oliver Wyman de 2012 motivó dicha reanudación. En él se estimaban unas necesidades de 1.846 millones en el escenario base, escenario que ha sido peor que el real.Este trabajo analiza el valor del BdV. Los resultados indican que el valor mínimo del BdV para CaixaBank es de más de 4.000 millones de euros. Sin embargo, no se ha podido determinar el porqué de esta diferencia. Diferencia reconocida en las cuentas de CaixaBank. Sin embargo, el precio pagado, un euro, después de un sacrificio muy impor…
Association of SULT1A1 Arg213His polymorphism with male breast cancer risk: results from a multicenter study in Italy
2014
Male breast cancer (MBC) is rare and poorly understood. Like female breast cancer (FBC), MBCs are highly sensitive to hormonal changes, and hyperestrogenism, specifically, represents a major risk factor for MBC. MBC is considered similar to late-onset, post-menopausal estrogen/progesteron receptors positive FBC (ER+/PR+). Sulfotransferase 1A1 (SULT1A1) is an enzyme involved in the metabolism of estrogens. Recently, SULT1A1 common functional polymorphism Arg213His (638G>A) variant has been found to be associated with increased breast cancer (BC) risk, particularly in post-menopausal women. For this reason, we decided to explore whether SULT1A1 Arg213His could exert an effect on MBC developme…
The Intraday Interest Rate: What's that?
2015
We study the intraday interest rate in a CCP-based GC pooling repo market and its key determinants. Since collateral used in this market is identical to collateral eligible for the daylight overdraft facility of the Eurosystem, any intraday rate in this market cannot be a result of collateral constraints keeping banks from using the overdraft for arbitrage. Nevertheless, we find that in the crisis period a statistically and economically significant intraday spread (up to 60 basis points) prevailed that was only somewhat mitigated by the ECB's unconventional monetary policy measures. Our results show that this spread was mainly determined by the market liquidity of the repo market, suggestin…
The geography of Spanish bank branches
2014
This article analyzes the determinants of bank branch location in Spain taking the role of geography explicitly into account. After a long period of intense territorial expansion, especially by savings banks, many of these firms are now involved in merger processes triggered off by the financial crisis, most of which entail the closing of many branches. However, given the contributions of this type of banks to limit financial exclusion, this process might exacerbate the consequences of the crisis for some disadvantaged social groups. Related problems such as new banking regulation initiatives (Basel III), or the current excess capacity in the sector add further relevance to this problem. We…
La financiación de la adquisición de viviendas: crecimiento y sus repercusiones para las cooperativas de crédito españolas
2001
La financiación de viviendas ha sido durante los últimos veinte años la actividad de crédito bancario más dinámica. A lo largo de ese período se han producido transformaciones significativas que han dotado al mercado hipotecario de una gran flexibilidad y de altas dosis de competencia. Antes de las reformas de los años 80 era un mercado con fuertes limitaciones y restringido a cajas de ahorros y al Banco Hipotecario de España. A partir de entonces se ha flexibilizado la obtención de recursos y se ha permitido la entrada de nuevos agentes. No obstante, a la hora de elegir una entidad a la hora de solicitar un crédito para adquisición de una vivienda, las familias han tenido en cuenta, además…
Growing Like Germany: Local Public Debt, Local Banks, Low Private Investment
2021
The paper uses a panel of more than 1m German firms over 2010-2016, to provide the first firm-bank level evidence of local crowding out for a developed economy characterized by low interest rates and fiscal austerity. Our mechanism relies on two structural features of Germany's banking landscape: the local segmentation of credit markets for small and medium-sized firms (SME) and the role of local public banks in local public finance. Local public banks dominate lending to small and medium firms in Germany and also have an explicit mandate to lend to the local public sector. With spreads on local government debt at all-time lows, local public banks tried to break even, using their market pow…
"Table 3" of "Cross section and longitudinal single-spin asymmetry $A_L$ for forward $W^{\pm}\rightarrow\mu^{\pm}\nu$ production in polarized $p$$+$$…
2023
Single-spin asymmetries at forward $A^{FW}_L$ and backward $A^{BW}_L$ rapidities for $p$+$p$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 510 GeV for results in 2013 and 2012, plus combined results for both years.