operations of a large bank. Case studies of several branches were used to understand how and why the human resource management …'s performance. An important finding is that, even though all managers in this bank are given a formal set of human resource policies …

Three possible explanations for the emergence of the Canadian central bank in 1935 are examined: that it reflected the …

incomplete regional diversification, and hence subject to a significant risk of an occasional failure by a large bank, to one …

of creating an oligopoly. We assembled a data set that compares bank failures, lending rates, interest paid on deposits …

macroeconomic and bank regulatory reform. Bank regulatory policy promoted privatization, financial liberalization, and free entry …. Argentina's bank regulatory system now is widely regarded as one of the two or three most successful among emerging market …

studying bank-specific data on lending by domestically- and foreign-owned banks in Argentina and Mexico. We find that foreign …. Overall, these findings suggest that bank health, and not ownership per se, is the critical element in the growth, volatility …, and cyclicality of bank credit. Diversity in ownership appears to contribute to greater stability of credit in times of …