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The Impact Of Internet-Based Services On Credit Unions: A Propensity Score Matching Approach, Elisabeta Pana, Sascha Vitzthum, David Willis
The Impact Of Internet-Based Services On Credit Unions: A Propensity Score Matching Approach, Elisabeta Pana, Sascha Vitzthum, David Willis
Elisabeta Pana
Credit unions focus their profit and capital management on the tradeoff between providing immediate financial benefits to members and augmenting their institutional well-being through capital accumulation. In this study, we investigate the changes in benefits to credit union members via the interest-rate spread around the adoptions of internet-based services for the period of 2000–2009. Using the propensity score matching method, we show that adopters offer a less favorable interest-rate spread to their members than non-adopters. However, we find evidence that early adopters have a lower degree of market power in dealing with their members than late adopters and offer interest-rate …
Qep And Bank Liquidity Creation: Evidence From Japan, Elisabeta Pana
Qep And Bank Liquidity Creation: Evidence From Japan, Elisabeta Pana
Elisabeta Pana
The 2001-2006 Japanese quantitative easing policy (QEP) represents the most prominent example of unconventional monetary policy used prior to the recent financial crisis. This paper contributes to the current debate over the effectiveness of Japan’s QEP by documenting the changes in absolute amount of liquidity created by Japanese banks during the period of 2001-2007. Using the liquidity creation measure developed by Berger and Bouwman (2009), we document the impact of macroeconomic factors and bank characteristic on liquidity creation. The analysis is conducted in a multivariate dynamic panel regression framework using a dataset comprised of 120 Japanese banks containing balance sheet …