Modelling of domestic and foreign visitors' behaviour at commercial bank website during the recent financial crisis

Modelling of Domestic and Foreign Visitors’ Behaviour at Commercial Bank Website during the Recent Financial Crisis

DRLÍK MARTIN, PILKOVÁ ANNA, MUNK MICHAL, ŠVEC PETER: Modelling of domestic and foreign visitors’ behaviour at commercial bank website during the recent fi nancial crisis. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013, LXI, No. 7, pp. 2065–2070 The paper focuses on modelling of commercial bank website visitors’ behaviour. The authors analyse domestic and foreign ma...

Human Migration and Commercial Bank Risk During the Financial Crisis

Bank loans and borrower value during the recent financial crisis Empirical evidence from France

We investigate the impact of bank loan announcements on borrower value during the recent boom and bust cycle of the 2000’s using a sample of 253 large loans to French borrowers. We find no significant stock market reaction to bank loan announcements during the boom period but a significant and negative one during the financial crisis. Hence, although we document significant changes in ...

Bank Holding Company Dividends and Repurchases during the Financial Crisis

Many large U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) continued to pay dividends during the recent financial crisis, even as financial market conditions deteriorated, large losses accumulated, and emergency capital and liquidity were being provided by the official sector. In contrast, share repurchases by these BHCs dropped sharply in the early part of the crisis. Documenting this divergent behavior is...

Bank CEO Optimism and the Financial Crisis∗

I test theories of the recent financial crisis by studying how banks’ pre-crisis investments connect to their CEOs’ beliefs. Using different proxies for beliefs, I find banks with larger housing investments and worse crisis performance had CEOs who were more optimistic ex ante. Banks with the most optimistic CEOs experienced 20 percentage points higher real estate loan growth, and 15 percentage...