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- To have sufficient data available for econometric analysis, we include banks that were taken over only if we have at least four years of data. Moreover, given the enormous task of cleaning up the database, we decided to include only banks that issued more than 200 bonds during 1999-2013. Including “dead†banks, this gave us a preliminary sample group of 77 banks. Of these 77 banks, we dropped 14 due to data constraints with respect to the explanatory variables. In the end, we settled for 23 Other papers have the same experience with the construction of bank samples. For example, Rose and Wieladek (2012) conducted also extensive bank-by-bank investigations (including Google searches) for certain institutional characteristics in order to construct their sample group.
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- We obtain these data from Thomson Reuters Datastream, Bloomberg and Markit. The estimations are conducted for the period before the crisis (January 1999 – September 2007) and since the crisis (October 2007 – March 2013). Depending on the specification used, we have between 1,740 and 1,884 observations. Although the banking literature suggests that tax reasons may drive debt issuance of banks as well, the monthly frequency of our country-analysis is less suited to test the tax hypothesis, as corporate tax rates change rather infrequently.
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