Essays about: "western banking"

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1. 1. Networks of spillover effects to spot systemic risk in the banking industry: testing Granger causality in a high dimensional VAR model

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Emanuele Paccagnella; [2023]
   Keywords : Systemic risk - Network - Contagion - Banks - VAR; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : In this essay the evolution of global systemic risk is investigated by creating networks (and communities) of contagion among 88 banks that are deemed systemically important on a global level (particularly western economy). The contagion is defined by a Granger Causality relation between two individuals in the network, this is tested using the Post double selection method described in Margartitella et al. READ MORE

3. 2. Banking the unbanked: Financial inclusion and economic sustainable development for women? : Decolonial perspectives on the gendered migration-remittances-development nexus

   University essay from Linköpings universitet/REMESO - Institutet för forskning om Migration, Etnicitet och Samhälle; Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och samhälle

   Author : Heidi Källoff; [2020]
   Keywords : Remittances; the global remittance trend; financial inclusion; economic democratization; sustainable development; austerity; gender mainstreaming; migration management; transnational business feminism; decoloniality; decolonialism;

   Abstract : Over the last decade, a new trend of Global Remittances has emerged within the international development community, especially a growing interest in women’s migration and remittances, and their potential for poverty reduction and economic growth. Due to the staggering amount of transnational money transfers, migrant remittances have become a central component in multilateral discussions on alternative development financing, and has been included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). READ MORE

4. 3. Institutional Investor Presence, Underpricing and Flipping Activity - Empirical Findings from Western European Exchanges

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Claes Ekstrand; Jacob Zachrisson; [2018-06-25]
   Keywords : underpricing; flipping activity; institutional investors; initial public offering IPO ; signalling theory; agency theory; information asymmetry;

   Abstract : Purpose: This undergraduate thesis examines IPO pre-market demand as a predictor of total institutional investment (pre-IPO institutional owners maintaining their stake + institutional allocation). It also aims to investigate institutional owners’ effect on underpricing and overall flipping. READ MORE

5. 4. Moving the World to Islamic Banking. A STUDY OF ISLAMIC BANKING AS A FINANCIAL SYSTEM AND AN ANALYSIS OF HOW IT COULD BE TRANSFERRED TO THE SWEDISH MARKET

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Linnéa Hallberg; Yasmine Åkermark Nettelbladt; [2011-08-30]
   Keywords : Islamic banking; conventional banking; finance; Malaysia; Sweden; marketing; international business;

   Abstract : This thesis provides an explanation of Islamic banking and its concept by the use of a case study of Malaysia, a pioneer within Islamic finance. Furthermore it investigates the implementation of the Islamic banking system in a Western country, where Sweden has been chosen as an example. READ MORE

6. 5. All inclusive microfinance : A study of the demand for Islamic microfinance in Malawi.

   University essay from Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Lars Eriksson; [2010]
   Keywords : MICROFINANCE; RELIGION; ISLAM; MALAWI; DISCRIMINATION; CREDIT CONSTRAINTS; mikrofinans; krediter;

   Abstract : Microfinance is the number one buzz word in the development sphere nowadays. The basic idea of microfinance is to make financial services available for those excluded from the conventional banking system. READ MORE