Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist eine empirische Analyse des Zusammenhangs zwischen Bond-Credit Spreads und Ratings … durchgeführt, um eigene Aussagen über den Informationsgehalt von Ratings herzuleiten. In Hinblick auf den Informationsgehalt von … Ratings muss zwischen Up- und Downgrades unterschieden werden. Während Upgrades von den Maerkten vorweggenommen werden, zeigt …

This article identifies whether top managers in banks’ parent companies are highly involved in the design of strategy … (including the role of information and telecommunication technologies in the design and implementation of banks’ diversification …

-conomy. During the last years, the banks have started an expansion to the web – they offer broad range of traditional bank products … Bulgarian banks. They are estimated in accordance with the criteria as: web site availability; information for bank products and … of the small number of Bulgarian banks, which offer their products and services via Internet, the research shows that …

expansion of the Bulgarian banks is at its beginning. The showed results are based on the Internet research, which has aimed to … describe actual picture of Bulgarian banks present in Internet. …

in major building societies during the dawn of the computer era. Reference to similar developments in clearing banks …

This research considers the way in chinc banks have altered their strategies as regulatory change (ie deregulation) and … managers of commercial banks, investment banks, management consulting firns and regulators from Mexico, Spain, and the UK … participated. Qualitative and quantitative analysis established that the great majority of banks responded to changes in growth …

We develop a model to study the deployment of shared automated teller machines (ATMs) by banks when an interchange … system compensates them for processing foreign withdrawals. The interchange fee is chosen collectively by banks and it is … collusive device by banks. The model predicts an over-provision of ATMs when the number of banks is large. The predictions of …