The determinants of default risk of banks in emerging economies have so far received inadequate attention in the … the economy. Public sector banks have shown significant performance in containing bad debts. Private banks have continued … banks, apart from other accepted determinants of profitability, asset size has no significant impact on profitability. …

deposits causes a preferential growth of banks with a fitness determined by the competitive advantage to attract permanent … deposits. They generate the lognormal part of the size distribution. Sufficiently large banks, however, benefit from economies …

In this paper, we investigate the claim that German banks are special compared to banks in other industrialised … economies. We show that banks are of particular importance to the German economy—as financial intermediary, as lender to the … corporate sector, and as part of the corporate governance system. Further, German banks are supervised by two supervisory …

independently of whether we consider the states’ overall economy or their manufacturing sector …