the possible repercussions of these on the performance of banks can be avoided only by implementing a solid system of … governance. The main purpose of this article is to determine the impact of governance on the performance of banks, through an … importance incites governments to insure the stability and the good performance of their banking systems. Accordingly, several …

Shiwakoti et al. (2008) concluded that four of the largest UK mutual societies which converted to listed bank status in … after conversion. All four converting societies have since been subject to ownership change, suggesting that this out-performance … leave unanswered important questions, such as how to measure ‘superior’ performance and the appropriate time frame over …

measure, enriched with a credit-score-index estimated ad hoc on a representative sample of confidential local bank ratings. A …

, the degree of de/centralization, and the performance of almost 260 German manufacturing firms. We estimate production …

Clearly, a new agenda is emerging for private international banks. Political issues such as human rights seem to be a … current concern. But what about democracy? What about political regimes? Are they taken into account by private banks when … they decide whether to invest in a country? Put another way, do private banks have democratic political preferences? In …

This paper analyses the effects of concentration on profitability in the US banking sector from 1994-2005, using bank … relationship between concentration and profitability. Strong support is found for the Structure-Conduct-Performance hypothesis, as … concentration and profitability even when the largest banks are excluded from the sample, suggesting that the relationship between …

between bank stock returns and future GDP growth that is independent of the previously documented relationship between market … index returns and economic growth. We also find that much of the informational content of bank stock returns is captured by … country-specific and institutional characteristics, such as bank-accounting-disclosure standards, banking crises, enforcement …

In this article we explore organisational changes associated with the computarization of British savings banks while … retail finance. Archival research on the evolution of savings banks helps to ascertain how, prior to competitive changes … taking place, participants in bank markets had to develop capabilities to compete. Moreover, assess the response of …