Purpose – Many banks consider mobile-based technologies have improved the banking services through introduction of new banking facilities. One of the latest facilities developed in this area is the “mobile credit card.” The purpose of this study is to examine the factors that determine intention to use mobile credit card among Malaysia bank customers, as their new way in conducting payment tran...

This study examines the misallocation of credit in Japan associated with the perverse incentives of banks to provide additional credit to the weakest firms. Firms are far more likely to receive additional credit if they are in poor financial condition, and these firms continue to perform poorly after receiving additional bank financing. Troubled Japanese banks allocate credit to severely impair...

Economies around the world are marked by major interventions in credit markets. Institutions ranging from central banks to the Grameen Bank operate under the assumptions that credit markets are imperfect, that these imperfections can be ameliorated, and that doing so increases output. There is surprisingly little empirical support for these propositions. Chapters 1 and 2 develop evidence on rel...

Previously circulated under the title \Banks and credit derivatives: Is it always good to have more risk management tools?" Abstract We model the eeects on banks of the introduction of a market for credit derivatives; in particular, credit default swaps. A bank can use such swaps to temporarily transfer credit risks of their loans to others, reducing the likelihood that defaulting loans trigger...

This chapter addresses the second research question to explore the relationship characteristics of the clients and possible threat of discontinuity of bank-client relationships driven from exogenous factors such as external shocks and competitor moves and endogenous factors such as dissatisfaction. This exploratory study is a starting point to further discuss an explanatory analysis of the clie...

Financial crises appear throughout human history. While there are many schools of thought on what the actual causes of such crises are, it has been suggested that the creation of credit money might be a source of financial instability. We discuss how the credit mechanism in a system of fractional reserve banking leads to non-local transfers of purchasing power that also affect non-involved agen...