The article presents the analysis of determinants of banks' competitiveness in local financial markets, with respect to local (cooperative) banks and branches of large commercial banks. The paper also evaluates the competitive position of the banks using the synthetic measure of competitive...

Lending specialization on certain industry sectors can have opposing effects on monitoring (including screening) abilities and on the sectoral concentration risk of a credit portfolio. In this paper, we examine in the first part if monitoring abilities of German cooperative banks and savings...

Many researchers confirm that corporate social responsibility (CSR) has a direct and indirect influence on financial performance. This study examines the mediating effect of corporate reputation between the relationship of corporate social responsibility and financial performance in Pakistan's...