Regional development banking

Development banking

Ž . This paper develops a model of a laissez-faire decentralized banking system in which banks are shown to both underinvest in, and undertransmit expertise in long-term industrial Ž . finance. Government support for one financial institution ‘the development bank’ can serve to reduce these problems, but unqualified government support alone is not enough. The efficiency of government sponsorshi...

Measuring banking sector development

Conventional measures of banking sector The traditional indicators utilized for assessing the size, depth and development of a country’s banking (financial) sector are: • The ratio of M2 to GDP • The ratio of private credit to GDP. In particular, both these measures have been used to show the causal effects of financial development on economic growth. However, both measures have some limitation...

By a Silken Thread: Regional banking integration and pathways to financial development in Japan’s Great Recession

We examine the impact of cross-prefectural differences in financial integration on the regional spread of Japan’s Great Recession in the early 1990s. In prefectures with many small manufacturing firms, post-1990 growth was significantly lower if low levels of banking integration with the rest of the country before 1990 existed. The least financially integrated and most credit-dependent prefectu...

Banking Sector Development in the Czech Republic

The Development of Universal Banking in Lithuania

The integration of Lithuania to the European Union increases openness of its economy and gives an impulse to create financial and legal system aligning with the leading European countries. The universal German banking market conditioned more universality in Lithuanian banking system. Initially securities and insurance business was partly restricted for banks in Lithuania, but restrictions are g...