Impact of the Global Crisis on Banking Sector Soundness: Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Abstract

The theses assesses the influence of the Crisis on the soundness of banking sector in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The analysis using bank-specific and country-specific data employs the descriptive and econometric tools. Especially, the fixed-effects method helps to reveal an impact of the Crisis on gross loans, liquid assets, non-performing loans, return on average asset and capital adequacy ratio. The results suggest that the crisis affected negatively the bank soundness of each discussed country, specifically the macroeconomic transmission channel was proven to be significant in all studied countries. The funding transmission channel was significant only in case of Poland