Empirical Banking - JEM341

• Title: Empirical Banking
• Czech title: Empirical Banking
• Guaranteed by: Institute of Economic Studies (23-IES)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:6/0, C [HS]
• Capacity: 97 / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: prof. Roman Horváth, Ph.D.; Laurent Weill
• Teacher(s): prof. Roman Horváth, Ph.D.; Ing. Martina Lušková; Laurent Weill

Annotation

English

This is a compact course on empirical banking to be taught by Professor Laurent Weill (University of Strasbourg).

Timing:

September 17: 9:00-12:00
September 18: 9:00-12:00 and 13:00-16:00
room 314

Empirical Banking
Laurent Weill (University of Strasbourg)


Objective of the course:
The course aims at providing a better understanding of banking and empirical research in banking. It provides a wide range of topics and recent results in empirical banking. It explains research in empirical banking by developing ideas and methodologies.

Introduction: key concepts of banking
What is a bank? Why do we need banks?

1. Bank Competition
1.1 Measuring bank competition
1.2 The effects of bank competition
Illustrations:
• "Bank Competition in China" (Fungacova and Weill, Handbook of Competition in Banking and Finance, 2017).
• “Does Competition Influence Bank Failures? Evidence from Russia” (Fungacova and Weill, Economics of Transition, 2013)

2. Bank Efficiency
2.1 Measuring bank efficiency
2.2 The effects of bank efficiency
Illustration:
• "Are Private Banks More Efficient than Public Banks? Evidence from Russia" (Karas, Schoors and Weill, Economics of Transition, 2010).
• “Does Bank Efficiency Influence the Cost of Credit?” (Shamshur and Weill, Journal of Banking and Finance, 2019).
• “Does Bank Efficiency Affect the Bank Lending Channel in China?” (Fungacova, Kerola and Weill, Emerging Markets Review, 2023).


3. Bank Liquidity Creation
3.1 Measuring bank liquidity creation
3.2 The effects of bank liquidity creation
Illustrations:
• "Bank Capital and Liquidity Creation: Granger Causality Evidence" (Horvath, Seidler and Weill, Journal of Financial Services Research, 2014).
• "High Liquidity Creation and Bank Failures" (Fungacova, Turk-Ariss and Weill, Journal of Financial Stability, 2021).

4. Banking and institutions
4.1 Politics and banking
4.2 Corruption in bank lending
Illustrations
• "Politics and Banking in Russia: The Rise of Putin" (Schoors and Weill, Post Soviet Affairs, 2020).
• “Do Banking Crises Improve Democracy?” (Kouevi-Gath, Méon and Weill, Public Choice, 2021).
• "Democracy Favors Access to Credit of Firms” (Osei-Tutu and Weill, European Journal of Political Economy, 2023).
• "Does Money Buy Credit? Firm-Level Evidence on Bribery and Bank Debt" (Fungacova, Kochanova and Weill, World Development, 2015)

5. Culture and banking
5.1 Trust in banks
5.2 Language and banking
5.3 Religion and banking

Illustrations
• "Trust in Banks” (Fungacova, Hasan and Weill, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2017).
• "How Language Shapes Bank Risk Taking” (Osei-Tutu and Weill, Journal of Financial Services Research, 2021).
• “Sex, Language, and Financial Inclusion” (Osei-Tutu and Weill, Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2021).
• "Do Islamic Banks Have Greater Market Power?" (Weill, Comparative Economic Studies, 2011).
• “Islamic Banking Development and Access to Credit” (Léon and Weill, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2018)

References:
Degryse, H., M. Kim and S. Ongena, Microeconometrics of banking. Oxford University Press, 2009.
Greenbaum, S., A. Thakor and A. Boot, Contemporary Financial Intermediation. Academic Press, 2015.

Last update: Horváth Roman, prof., Ph.D. (27.05.2026)