CHARITY BANKING: UTOPIA OR AN ALTERNATIVE TO GREEDY FINANCE?

Money, Banking, and Finance

Access to Banking Finance and Exporting

Using firm-level data from the manufacturing sector of Chile for the period 1995-2002, we examine whether access to finance increase the probability of exporting. To do that, we exploit information of firms ́ access to banking debt and changes in the real exchange rate (RER) to identify the causal effect of finance on exporting. This is an interesting setting given that the Chilean economy exper...

Centre for Banking and Finance

This paper examines the effectiveness of strategic planning in commercial banks and how management styles influence (or reflect influences) on diversification decisions within bank markets. The research is based on and further develops a framework proposed by Goold and Campbell (1987) and Goold et al. (1994) by testing the strategic response of banks to changes in their growth opportunities. Ch...

Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments and Finance: An Overview

The 2010 Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments and Finance met at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago this summer, for the second year. The following document summarizes and ties together the papers

A Basic Guide to Contemporary Islamic Banking and Finance

I was asked by ISNA to produce a short guide to Islamic Banking and Finance for the Muslims of North America. To keep this guide short, we had to define our target audience rather carefully. This introductory guide is meant to address the Muslim who is familiar with the fundamental tenets and sources of legislation in Islam. The reader is not assumed to have elaborate prior knowledge of Islamic...