Information sharing and credit: Firm-level evidence from transition countries
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In this paper, the authors investigate whether information sharing among banks has affected credit market performance in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, using a large sample of firm-level data.About:
This article is published in Journal of Financial Intermediation.The article was published on 2009-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 285 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Information sharing.read more
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Creditor rights, information sharing, and bank risk taking
TL;DR: This paper found that stronger creditor rights tend to promote greater bank risk-taking and increase the likelihood of financial crisis, while the benefits of information sharing among creditors appear to be universally positive.
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Cross-border banking, credit access, and the financial crisis
Alexander Popov,Gregory F. Udell +1 more
TL;DR: This paper studied the sensitivity of credit supply to bank financial conditions in 16 emerging European countries before and during the financial crisis and found that firms' access to credit was affected by changes in the financial conditions of their banks.
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Information Sharing and Financial Sector Development in Africa
TL;DR: In this article, the effect of information sharing has on financial sector development in 53 African countries for the period 2004 to 2011, and the empirical evidence is based on Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Generalized Method of Moments (GMM).
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Corruption in bank lending to firms : cross-country micro evidence on the beneficial role of competition and information sharing
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of both borrower and lender competition as well as information sharing via credit bureaus/registries on corruption in bank lending, and found strong evidence that both banking competition and information sharing reduce lending corruption, and that information sharing also helps enhance the positive effect of competition.
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The role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on inequality
TL;DR: In this article, the role of information sharing in modulating the effect of financial access on income inequality in 48 African countries for the period 2004-2014 was examined, where information sharing is proxie...
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