SSRN Bank of Finland Research Paper Series

1.

Corporate Social Responsibility and Shareholder's Value: An Event Study Analysis

FRB of Atlanta Working Paper No. 2007-6, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 1/2009

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 06 Sep 2006

Working Paper Series

Leonardo Becchetti, Rocco Ciciretti and Iftekhar Hasan

University of Rome, Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics, University of Rome II - Department of Economics and Finance and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

Downloads 4,351

2.

Macro Stress Testing with a Macroeconomic Credit Risk Model for Finland

Bank of Finland Discussion Paper No. 18/2004

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Nov 2004

Working Paper Series

Kimmo Virolainen

Bank of Finland

Downloads 2,588

3.

Why Does FDI Go Where it Goes? New Evidence from the Transition Economies

William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 573

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 01 Aug 2003

Working Paper Series

Yuko Kinoshita and Nauro F. Campos

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Brunel University London - Economics and Finance

Downloads 1,803

4.

Should Banks be Diversified? Evidence from Individual Bank Loan Portfolios

BIS Working Paper No. 118, AFA 2003 Washington, DC Meetings; London Business School, NYU Stern School of Business Working Paper

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 13 Dec 2005

Working Paper Series

Viral V. Acharya, Anthony Saunders and Iftekhar Hasan

New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,635

5.

Do Markets Perceive Sukuk and Conventional Bonds as Different Financing Instruments?

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 6/2011

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 May 2011

Working Paper Series

Christophe J. Godlewski, Rima Turk-Ariss and Laurent Weill

University of Strasbourg - LaRGE Research Center (Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie), International Monetary Fund and University of Strasbourg - LaRGE Research Center (Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie)

Downloads 1,184

6.

Bank Ownership and Efficiency in China: What will Happen in the World's Largest Nation?

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Aug 2006

Working Paper Series

Allen N. Berger, Iftekhar Hasan and Mingming Zhou

University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University and University of Colorado, Colorado Springs - College of Business

Downloads 1,145

7.

Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Does the Counterfactual Matter?

ECB Working Paper No. 47

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 28 Jul 2001

Working Paper Series

Reint Gropp and Jukka M. Vesala

Halle Institute for Economic Research and Bank of Finland - Finnish Financial Supervision Authority (FIN-FSA)

Downloads 1,108

8.

Optimum Currency Area Theory: A Selective Review

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 15/2003

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 19 Sep 2007

Working Paper Series

Julius Horvath

Central European University (CEU) - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,087

9.

A Value-At-Risk Approach to Banks' Capital Buffers: An Application to the New Basel Accord

Bank of Finland Discussion Paper No. 15/2001

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 29 Nov 2001

Working Paper Series

Esa Jokivuolle and Samu Peura

Bank of Finland - Research and Sampo Bank

Downloads 956

10.

Diagnosing Dutch Disease: Does Russia Have the Symptoms?

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 7/2007

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 20 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

Nienke Oomes and Katerina Kalcheva

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Morgan Stanley

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 856

11.

The Chinese Government's New Approach to Ownership and Financial Control of Strategic State-Owned Enterprises

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 10/2007

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 19 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

Mikael Mattlin

Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Downloads 844

12.

Macro-Model-Based Stress Testing of Basel II Capital Requirements

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 17/2008

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 16 Sep 2008

Working Paper Series

Esa Jokivuolle, Kimmo Virolainen and Oskari Vähämaa

Bank of Finland - Research, Bank of Finland and University of Turku

Downloads 841

13.

Signaling Asset Price Bubbles with Time-Series Methods

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 7/2012

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 11 Feb 2012

Working Paper Series

Katja Taipalus

Bank of Finland - Financial Stability and Statistics

Downloads 822

14.

Causes of Corruption: History, Geography, and Government

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 6/2008

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 10 Jun 2008

Working Paper Series

Rajeev K. Goel and Michael A. Nelson

Illinois State University - Department of Economics and University of Akron - Department of Economics

Downloads 795

15.

Bank Performance, Efficiency and Ownership in Transitition Countries

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 7/2004

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Sep 2007

Working Paper Series

John Bonin, Paul Wachtel and Iftekhar Hasan

Wesleyan University - Economics Department, New York University - Stern School of Business and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

Downloads 765

16.

Deposit Insurance, Moral Hazard and Market Monitoring

ECB Working Paper No. 302

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 May 2004

Working Paper Series

Reint Gropp and Jukka M. Vesala

Halle Institute for Economic Research and Bank of Finland - Finnish Financial Supervision Authority (FIN-FSA)

Downloads 744

17.

Simulation Based Stress Testing of Banks' Regulatory Capital Adequacy

Journal of Banking & Finance, Vol. 28, pp. 1801-1824, 2004, Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 4/2003

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 09 Oct 2003

Accepted Paper Series

Samu Peura and Esa Jokivuolle

Sampo Bank and Bank of Finland - Research

Downloads 737

18.

The New Basel Accord: Some Potential Implications of the New Standards for Credit Risk

Bank of Finland Working Paper No. 2/2001

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 22 Jul 2002

Working Paper Series

Esa Jokivuolle and Karlo Kauko

Bank of Finland - Research and Bank of Finland

Downloads 727

19.

Trade Integration of Central and Eastern European Countries: Lessons from a Gravity Model

ECB Working Paper No. 545

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 30 Nov 2005

Working Paper Series

Matthieu Bussière, Jarko Fidrmuc and Bernd Schnatz

Banque de France, Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and European Central Bank (ECB)

Downloads 673

20.

Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Russian Regions

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 17/2006

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 24 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

Svetlana Ledyaeva and Mikael Linden

University of Joensuu - Department of Economics and Business and University of Helsinki - Department of Political and Economic Studies

Downloads 672

21.

WTO Accession: What's in it for Russia?

William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 595

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Jan 2004

Working Paper Series

Abdur Chowdhury

Marquette University - Department of Economics

Downloads 654

22.

The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Business Cycles in Asian Emerging Economies

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2710, BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 11/2009

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Jarko Fidrmuc and Iikka Korhonen

Zeppelin University Friedrichshafen and Bank of Finland - Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

Downloads 625

23.

Bank Runs, Liquidity and Credit Risk

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 12/2008

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 May 2008

Working Paper Series

Jukka P. Topi

Bank of Finland

Downloads 621

24.

Diagnosing Dutch Disease: Does Russia Have the Symptoms?

IMF Working Paper No. 07/102

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 May 2007

Working Paper Series

Nienke Oomes and Katerina Kalcheva

International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Morgan Stanley

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 619

25.

Bank Ownership and Efficiency in China: What Lies Ahead in the World's Largest Nation?

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 16/2007

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 Oct 2007

Working Paper Series

Allen N. Berger, Mingming Zhou and Iftekhar Hasan

University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs - College of Business and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

Downloads 618

26.

Do Corporate Boards Affect Firm Performance? New Evidence from the Financial Crisis

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 11/2012

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Apr 2012

Working Paper Series

Bill B. Francis, Iftekhar Hasan and Qiang Wu

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Lally School of Management, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) - Lally School of Management

Downloads 609

27.

Informed Trading, Short Sales Constraints, and Futures' Pricing

Bank of Finland Discussion Papers 4/2000

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Mar 2000

Working Paper Series

Yrjo Koskinen, Pekka Hietala and Esa Jokivuolle

Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, INSEAD - Finance and Bank of Finland - Research

Downloads 605

28.

Optimizing Liquidity Usage and Settlement Speed in Payment Systems

Working Paper No. 16/99

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 07 Jul 2000

Working Paper Series

Harry Leinonen and Kimmo Soramaki

Bank of Finland - Financial Markets and European Central Bank (ECB)

Downloads 603

29.

Further Evidence on the Link between Finance and Growth: An International Analysis of Community Banking and Economic Performance

FEDS Working Paper No. 2003-47; Bank of Finland Discussion Paper No. 8.2004; World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3105

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Aug 2003

Working Paper Series

Allen N. Berger, Iftekhar Hasan and Leora F. Klapper

University of South Carolina - Darla Moore School of Business, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University and World Bank

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 597

30.

Banking Integration in the Euro Area

ECB Working Paper No. 6

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 22 Aug 2005

Working Paper Series

Inês Cabral, Frank Dierick and Jukka M. Vesala

European Central Bank (ECB) - Directorate Financial Stability and Supervision, European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Finland - Finnish Financial Supervision Authority (FIN-FSA)

Downloads 596

31.

Equity and Bond Market Signals as Leading Indicators of Bank Fragility

ECB Working Paper No. 150

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Jan 2003

Working Paper Series

Reint Gropp, Jukka M. Vesala and Giuseppe Vulpes

Halle Institute for Economic Research, Bank of Finland - Finnish Financial Supervision Authority (FIN-FSA) and UniCredit

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 591

32.

Do Efficient Banking Sectors Accelerate Economic Growth in Transition Countries

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 14/2002

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 Sep 2007

Working Paper Series

Tuuli Koivu

Bank of Finland

Downloads 582

33.

The 1990's Financial Crises in Nordic Countries

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 5/2009

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 03 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Seppo Honkapohja

Bank of Finland

Downloads 581

34.

Privatization Matters: Bank Efficiency in Transition Countries

William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 679, BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 8/2004

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 08 May 2004

Working Paper Series

John Bonin, Paul Wachtel and Iftekhar Hasan

Wesleyan University - Economics Department, New York University - Stern School of Business and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 571

35.

A Global House Price Bubble? Evaluation Based on a New Rent-Price Approach

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 29/2006

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 02 Oct 2007

Working Paper Series

Katja Taipalus

Bank of Finland - Financial Stability and Statistics

Downloads 562

36.

The Effect of State Antitakeover Laws on the Firm's Bondholders

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2010

Working Paper Series

Bill B. Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Kose John and Maya Waisman

University of South Florida - College of Business Administration, Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

Downloads 561

37.

Determinants of the Loan Loss Allowance: Some Cross-country Comparisons

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 19 Feb 2004

Working Paper Series

Larry D. Wall and Iftekhar Hasan

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta - Research Department and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 559

38.

A Model for Estimating Recovery Rates and Collateral Haircuts for Bank Loans

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 2/2000

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Oct 2007

Working Paper Series

Esa Jokivuolle and Samu Peura

Bank of Finland - Research and Sampo Bank

Downloads 558

39.

The Impact of Bank and Non-Bank Financial Institutions on Local Economic Growth in China

TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2006-009, Center Discussion Paper Series No. 2006-82

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 May 2006

Working Paper Series

Xiaoqiang Cheng and Hans Degryse

Hong Kong Monetary Authority and KU Leuven, Department Accounting, Finance and Insurance

Downloads 553

40.

Competition and Regulation in European Retail Payment Systems

Bank of Finland Discussion Paper No. 16/2003

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 24 Sep 2003

Working Paper Series

Kari Kemppainen

Bank of Finland - Research

Downloads 546

41.

Re-engineering Payment Systems for the E-world

Bank of Finland Working Paper No. 17/2000

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 23 Jun 2002

Working Paper Series

Harry Leinonen

Bank of Finland - Financial Markets

Downloads 541

42.

Bank Behaviour with Access to Credit Risk Transfer Markets

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 4/2007

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 31 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2010

Working Paper Series

Benedikt Goderis, Ian W. Marsh, Judit Vall Castelló and Wolf Wagner

The Netherlands Institute for Social Research|SCP, City University London - Sir John Cass Business School, University of Girona and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)

Downloads 535

43.

The Role of Macroeconomic Shocks in Banking Crises

Bank of Finland Discussion Paper No. 6/2001

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 20 Oct 2002

Working Paper Series

Jarmo Pesola

Bank of Finland - Research

Downloads 519

44.

Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Transferred: Some Panel Evidence from the Transition Economies

William Davidson Institute Working Paper Number 438

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Apr 2002

Working Paper Series

Nauro F. Campos and Yuko Kinoshita

Brunel University London - Economics and Finance and International Monetary Fund (IMF)

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 516

45.

The Evolution of Payments in Europe, Japan, and the United States: Lessons for Emerging Market Economies

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 1676

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

Working Paper Series

David B. Humphrey, Setsuya Sato, Masayoshi Tsurumi and Jukka M. Vesala

Florida State University - Department of Finance, Toyo University, Hosei University - Department of Economics and Bank of Finland - Finnish Financial Supervision Authority (FIN-FSA)

Downloads 511

46.

Financial Crises and Bank Failures: A Review of Prediction Methods

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 35/2009

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 06 Dec 2009

Working Paper Series

Yuliya S. Demyanyk and Iftekhar Hasan

Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and Gabelli School of Business, Fordham University

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 483

47.

Is Corruption an Efficient Grease?

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 20/2008

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Nov 2008

Working Paper Series

Pierre-Guillaume Meon and Laurent Weill

Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and University of Strasbourg - LaRGE Research Center (Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie)

Downloads 450

48.

Does the Chinese Banking System Benefit from Foreign Investors?

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 11/2008, BBVA Working Paper No. 0804

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2009

Working Paper Series

Alicia García-Herrero and Daniel Santabárbara

NATIXIS HONG KONG and Banco de España

Downloads 447

49.

Cross Listing and Firm Value - Corporate Governance or Market Segmentation? An Empirical Study of the Stock Market

BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 14/2005

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jul 2007

Working Paper Series

Andy G. Ji

Government of the Republic of Singapore - Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

Downloads 445

50.

A Wavelet Analysis of Scaling Laws and Long-Memory in Stock Market Volatility

Bank of Finland Research Discussion Paper No. 27/2005

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Oct 2007

Working Paper Series

Tommi A. Vuorenmaa

Triangle Intelligence

Downloads 443

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