"This paper examines the implications of bank activity and short-term funding strategies for bank risk and returns …-interest income generating activities such as trading increases the rate of return on assets, and it may offer some risk …, although it can offer some risk reduction at commonly observed low levels of non-deposit funding. A sizeable proportion of …

bank performance. They argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same … likely due to placing nonperforming loans into residual entities, leaving "good" privatized banks."--World Bank web site …

margins, and results in reduced franchise value that encourages bank risk taking. Under the alternative "competition …-stability" view, more market power in the loan market may result in greater bank risk as the higher interest rates charged to loan … these theories by regressing measures of loan risk, bank risk, and bank equity capital on several measures of market power …

, including in calculations of credit risk for capital and provisioning requirements, or as a check on a bank's internal ratings …"Powell, Mylenko, Miller, and Majnoni analyze how data in public credit registries can be used both to strengthen bank … empirical tests confirm the value of the data for credit risk evaluation and provide insights regarding its use in supervision …

ADR listings of local firms might not negatively affect local markets if the investment climate is good. "--World Bank web …