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Venture Capital and the Structure of Capital Markets: Banks Versus Stock Markets

, 1997
The United States has many banks that are small relative to large corporations and play a limited role in corporate governance, and a well developed stock market with an associated market for corporate control.
R. Gilson, Bernard Black
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Banks Should Be Banks!

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
The author identifies that the main problem causing the economic crisis the world is facing is the changing role of banks and the slack legal and regulatory conditions that allowed them to grow into huge financial conglomerates thereby losing track of their main economic banking function.
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Which Banks Are More Risky? The Impact of Business Models on Bank Stability

, 2015
In this paper, we analyze the impact of business models on bank stability in 15 EU countries between 2002 and 2011. We represent banks’ business models by the share of non-interest income in total operating income and the share of non-deposit funding in ...
Matthias Köhler
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Corporate Sustainability Disclosure in Annual Reports: Evidence from UAE Banks: Islamic versus Conventional

, 2016
The objective of this paper is to measure the degree of the corporate sustainability disclosure using annual data for listed banks in the UAE financial markets during the period 2003–2013.
Haitham Nobanee, N. Ellili
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How Excessive is Banks’ Maturity Transformation?

Social Science Research Network, 2016
We quantify the gains from regulating banks’ maturity transformation in an infinite horizon model of banks which finance long-term assets with non-tradable debt.
Anatoli Segura, J. Suárez
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Banking and shadow banking

Journal of Economic Theory, 2018
Abstract This paper incorporates shadow banking modeled as off-balance-sheet financing in a continuous-time macro-finance framework. Regular banks pursue regulatory arbitrage via shadow banking, and they support their shadow banks with implicit guarantees.
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Measuring the Independence of Central Banks and Its Effect on Policy Outcomes

, 1992
Making the central bank an agency with the mandate and reputation for maintaining price stability is a means by which a government can choose the strength of its commitment to price stability.
A. Cukierman
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Banking is essential, but banks are not

2018
The bank will think of these small companies as a high-risk segment. Therefore, they will either say no or give them a very poor deal. While banks read yesterday's news, we look at real-time data and can offer eligible merchants a tailor-made financing service. The whole thing started with my ex-wife coming home one night very frustrated.
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Is Islamic bank profitability driven by same forces as conventional banks

, 2016
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether Islamic bank profitability is driven by same forces as those driving conventional banking in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.
H. Zarrouk, Khoutem Ben Jedidia, Mouna Moualhi   +2 more
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Private Banks and Private Banking

2016
Private banks have been defined as banks whose owners are also their managers and whose legal form is that of a partnership. This chapter emphasizes their continued relevance from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, even though they became increasingly marginalized from the 1870s.
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