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Tests of Financial Intermediation and Banking Reform in China [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
We develop tests of financial intermediation by national banking systems that exploit regional financial and economic data. Derived from a model of bank profit maximization, the tests are based on the expectation that in efficient systems, financial ...
Park, Albert, Sehrt, Kaja
core   +2 more sources

Impact of Cost Efficiency on Bank Capital and the Cost of Financial Intermediation: Evidence from BRICS Countries

open access: yesInternational Journal of Financial Studies, 2017
Over last two decades, emerging and developing nations have desperately endeavored for efficient banking sectors. In this study, we argue that bank efficiency generates incentives that can impact banks’ capital holdings and the cost of financial ...
Mohammed Mizanur Rahman   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Financial intermediation and financial inclusion of poor households: Mediating role of social networks in rural Uganda

open access: yesCogent Economics & Finance, 2017
The paper examined the mediating role of social networks in the relationship between financial intermediation and financial inclusion of poor households in rural Uganda.
George Okello Candiya Bongomin   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Intein‐based modular chimeric antigen receptor platform for specific CD19/CD20 co‐targeting

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
CARtein is a modular CAR platform that uses split inteins to splice antigen‐recognition modules onto a universal signaling backbone, enabling precise, scarless assembly without re‐engineering signaling domains. Deployed here against CD19 and CD20 in B‐cell malignancies, the design supports flexible multi‐antigen targeting to boost T‐cell activation and
Pablo Gonzalez‐Garcia   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Intermediation with Risk Aversion [PDF]

open access: yesThe Review of Economic Studies, 2000
The paper extends Diamond's (1984) analysis of financial intermediation to allow for risk aversion of the intermediary. It shows that, as in the case of risk neutrality, the agency costs of external funds provided to an intermediary are relatively small if the intermediary is financing many entrepreneurs with stochastically independent returns.
openaire   +5 more sources

Cytoplasmic p21 promotes stemness of colon cancer cells via activation of the NFκB pathway

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cytoplasmic p21 promotes colorectal cancer stem cell (CSC) features by destabilizing the NFκB–IκB complex, activating NFκB signaling, and upregulating BCL‐xL and COX2. In contrast to nuclear p21, cytoplasmic p21 enhances spheroid formation and stemness transcription factor CD133.
Arnatchai Maiuthed   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial intermediation in Serbia: Alternatives for economic growth acceleration [PDF]

open access: yesBankarstvo, 2017
The aim of the paper is to explore whether there is a fundamental alternative to the incumbent pattern of financial intermediation that can accelerate the economic growth of Serbia.
Begović Boris
doaj   +1 more source

Potential therapeutic targeting of BKCa channels in glioblastoma treatment

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review summarizes current insights into the role of BKCa and mitoBKCa channels in glioblastoma biology, their potential classification as oncochannels, and the emerging pharmacological strategies targeting these channels, emphasizing the translational challenges in developing BKCa‐directed therapies for glioblastoma treatment.
Kamila Maliszewska‐Olejniczak   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Information as a consumer protection instrument on the consumer credit market

open access: yesTechnological and Economic Development of Economy
The aim of the article was to assess the opinions of consumer credit borrowers on the information message provided to them by lenders at the pre-contractual stage.
Iwona Dorota Czechowska   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Centralisation in international financial intermediation: theory, practice, and evidence for the European Community

open access: yesPSL Quarterly Review, 2013
The location of international financial centres is examined as a way by which financial intermediaries attempt to overcome geographical dimension as a kind of market imperfection.
L.J.R. SCHOLTENS
doaj   +1 more source

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