Financial stability, competitiveness and banks' innovation capacity: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis

Marta  Degl'Innocenti; Kevin Grant; Aleksandar Sevic; Nickolaos Tzeremes

doi:10.1016/j.irfa.2018.07.009

Financial stability, competitiveness and banks' innovation capacity: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis

Marta Degl'Innocenti, Kevin Grant, Aleksandar Sevic, Nickolaos Tzeremes

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This paper provides nuanced evidence on the effect of competitiveness and financial stability on banks’ innovation-capacity (technological-change) levels during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2007–2008. We applied contemporary developments in non-parametric frontier analysis, employing a new index, the Global Financial Centres Index, to measure the business competitiveness of 45 financial centres. Our findings indicated a nonlinear and positive relationship between financial centres’ competitiveness, banks’ stability and innovation-capacity levels. This suggests that banks’ ability to increase stability alongside financial centres’ stability in a highly competitive environment acts as a protective measure against the GFC's negative effects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	35-46
Number of pages	12
Journal	International Review of Financial Analysis
Volume	59
Early online date	6 Jul 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2018.07.009
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018

Keywords

Financial centres
Global Financial Crisis
Innovation capacity
Non-parametric frontier analysis

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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