• Bank Regulation and Bank Crisis 

      Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Eitrheim, Øyvind (Working Papers;18/2009, Working paper, 2009)
      The Norwegian experiences of the past thirty years illustrate what we believe are two general tendencies in bank regulation. The first one is that a bank crisis will tend to focus regulators' minds and lead to stricter ...
    • Banks as Multioutput Oligopolies: An Empirical Evaluation of the Retail and Corporate Banking Markets 

      Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Kim, Moshe (Working Papers;10/1994, Working paper, 1994)
      The distinction between retail and corporate banking markets is of much importance in real life banking organizations. The two markets differ with respect to concentration, the importance of informational asymmetries, and ...
    • Early Warning Indicators for Norwegian Banks: A Logit Analysis of the Experiences from the Banking Crisis 

      Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Hexeberg, Barbro (Working Papers;1/1994, Working paper, 1994)
      Most existing early warning studies for the banking industry are based on U.S. data. The present paper considers the experiences made during the Norwegian banking crisis 1988- 92. The performance of a set of possible early ...
    • The Dynamics of Operating Income in the Norwegian Banking Sector 

      Andersen, Henrik; Berg, Sigbjørn Atle; Jansen, Eilev S. (Working Papers;13/2008, Working paper, 2008)
      The banking literature contains only a handful of studies of how bank revenues vary over the business cycle, and nearly all of these studies look exclusively on the net interest margin. The general conclusion has been that ...