The purpose of the study is to empirically test the presence of a bank lending channel in the Turkish economy. The empirical investigations are focused on the bank lending behaviour of 58 deposit money banks in the Turkish banking system over the period 19881999. The estimation methodology of the empirical analysis differs from that of similar studies in the literature, providing econometricall...

Key points • Although ‘peer review’ has quasi-sacred status, times are changing, and peer review is not necessarily a single and uniformly reliable gold standard. • For publishers, peer review is a process not an outcome. • Academics understand peer review, but are often ignorant about the quality checking mechanisms within wider publishing. • Self-publishing has led to the much wider availabil...

Main duties: Underwriting and processing loan applications; collecting and analyzing information which reflects the credit worthiness of applicant; monitoring loan repayment activities; completing the monthly various financial reports for both loan department and CB.

This research-in-progress employs expectancy theory to evaluate key factors that may motivate students to participate in the peer evaluation process of group projects. The preliminary results indicate that students generally perceived peer evaluation being taken into consideration in determining peers’ grades to be the most attractive outcome of a peer evaluation system. The second attractive o...

Als Social Lending bezeichnet man die Kreditvergabe zwischen Privatpersonen. Beim Online Social Lending veröffentlichen potenzielle Kreditnehmer ihre Gesuche auf entsprechenden Webseiten im Internet, um private Investoren zu finden. Dieser Beitrag weist auf einen Konflikt zwischen wirtschaftlichen Interessen und Datenschutzzielen hin und analysiert ihn mit empirischen Daten der größten deutsche...

In this study, we drew from the existing online trust model to develop a specific model of online lending platform trust from the perspectives of cognition-based trust and affect-based trust. Trust between lenders and borrowers have been discussed a lot but there are no empirical studies focusing on trust toward lending platforms. The dearth of the relevant studies on this aspect indicates the ...