The institutional legacy of the Ottoman Empire: Islamic rule and financial development in South Eastern Europe

This paper uses a historical experiment - the occupation of South Eastern Europe by the Ottoman Empire - to shed light on the persistence of financial development. Interest-lending prohibition persisted under Islamic rule much longer than in the rest of Europe. The unique history and political fragmentation of the region allows investigating within-country effects, in six countries that were formerly only partly occupied by the Ottoman Empire. Former Islamic rule is consistently associated with lower contemporaneous formal financial development, both across and within countries. It is associated with a decrease in bank penetration by 10% across countries and 4% within countries. However, within country, the effect of the Ottoman Empire is confined to financial development. There is no association between former Ottoman rule, income, small and medium sized enterprise development or entrepreneurship. The effect is robust to controlling for a wide number of observable characteristics. Moreover, localities with Armenian, Jewish or Greek minorities, who were allowed to practice interest lending under Ottoman rule, have higher levels of bank penetration. By contrast, Islamic religion and trust in the financial system play no role in explaining such long-term persistence.     

我国商业银行跨国经营区位选择分析

旨在从理论上分析我国商业银行海外经营的区位选择。影响商业银行跨国经营区位选择的因素可分为引导效应、区位优势因素、风险因素三类;通过实证研究,分析了三类因素对我国商业银行跨国经营的影响程度,得出“引导效应”因素影响较大、“区位优势”因素有一定影响的结论;并且针对处于不同发展阶段的银行提出了不同的区位选择构想。     

浅谈电子商务网上支付与安全

电子商务的安全问题是其顺利发展的一个关键,也是一个难点.本文从介绍我国现行电子商务网上支付与结算的方式、系统、工具等来说明电子商务的主要支付结算流程,以及现行网上支付结算所存在的安全问题,提出了相应的解决办法.     

中国回族伊斯兰消费思想及其现代价值

回族是我国信仰伊斯兰教的十个少数民族中人口最多的一个民族,考察回族传统文化,揭示回族文化中折射出的伊斯兰消费思想,指出"适度从俭"、"崇尚自然"等消费思想的现实意义,对于我国构建"资源节约型社会"和"环境友好型社会"有着借鉴作用。     

银行业竞争度问题研究最新发展

本文按照不同研究主线,对2000年前后至今银行业竞争度研究的相关文献进行系统整理。文献资料表明,国外研究主要从银行业竞争与经济金融发展与稳定的关系、银行业竞争度的测算方法、银行业竞争度在国别和规模上的差异以及银行业竞争度的影响因素这四个方面展开。国内研究则主要从中国银行业竞争度的识别、银行业竞争度的地区和规模差异、银行...     

美国的影子银行系统

影子银行是指游离于传统商业银行体系之外的、从事与传统银行相类似的金融活动但却不受监管或几乎不受监管的金融实体。次贷危机爆发前,美国的影子银行体系发展达到巅峰状态。在本次金融危机中,影子银行系统备受诟病,被认为是此次危机的罪魁祸首。文章对美国影子银行系统的构成、业务流程及投融资活动等进行了梳理,以期为理解次贷危机前美国金融体系的运行特征提供启示。     

我国商业银行零售业务转型研究

阐述了国内商业银行零售业务转型的五大动因,即适应客户消费习惯变化动因、抢抓客户财富商机动因、反制双重脱媒动因、获取市场定价主动权动因和实施战略资本管理动因。总结了国内外商业银行零售业务的转型经验,包括客户为本、产品为基、服务为魂、渠道为王、科技为撑、队伍为源。进而提出了国内商业银行零售业务转型的策略。     

江西省银行业促进经济发展实证研究

本文首先回顾了国内外部分重要相关文献,论述了银行业对经济增长的影响,然后对江西省银行业发展现状进行了统计分析。在此基础上,选择江西省贷款相关比率、存款与贷款比率作为衡量银行业发展状况的规模与效率变量,并将GDP作为经济增长的变量,通过协整检验及向量自回归模型的Granger因果关系检验,验证江西省银行业发展与经济增长之间的互动关系,最后针对研究结论进行了综合分析。     

The Role of Soft Information in a Dynamic Contract Setting: Evidence from the Home Equity Credit Market

Credit underwriting is a dynamic process involving multiple interactions between borrower and lender. During this process, lenders have the opportunity to obtain hard and soft information from the borrower. We analyze more than 108,000 home equity loans and lines‐of‐credit applications to study the role of soft and hard information during underwriting. Our data set allows us to distinguish lender actions that are based strictly on hard information from decisions that involve the collection of soft information. Our analysis confirms the importance of soft information and suggests that its use can be effective in reducing overall portfolio credit losses ex post.