commercial banks. We use stochastic cost frontier and panel data methods for an unbalanced panel data of Pakistani banks from … 1991 to 2005. We find overall bank cost inefficiency of 36%, which has decreased at the rate of 5.7% per annum. Our results …-term trends. Our results show that privatization and government restructuring of state-owned banks lead to substantial short …

paper analyses the banks ownership and control structure. It finds that Pakistan has its own idiosyncrasies, which are …

spread discourages savings and investments on the one hand, and raises concerns on the effectiveness of bank lending channel … 29 banks. The results show that inelasticity of deposit supply is a major determinant of interest spread whereas industry … concentration has no significant influence on interest spread. One reason for inelasticity of deposits supply to the banks is the …

Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G-20), a number of new international standards have been issued, most notably …. As a result, banks in the PRC find it quite easy to meet the new Basel III capital and liquidity standards. Basel III is … the potential to prevent banks from becoming too complicated for bankers to manage and for the regulator to supervise. As …

Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (G-20), a number of new international standards have been issued, most notably …. As a result, banks in the PRC find it quite easy to meet the new Basel III capital and liquidity standards. Basel III is … the potential to prevent banks from becoming too complicated for bankers to manage and for the regulator to supervise. As …