Wang investigate the impact of foreign bank entry on the performance of domestic banks and how this relationship is … observation based on descriptive analysis is that the degree of openness to foreign bank entry varies a great deal, which is not … of liberalization, foreign bank entry has significantly improved domestic bank competitiveness in countries that …

their private peers, and that privatization has increased productivity. "--World Bank web site … obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … such measures to a set of bank characteristics. Their main results indicate that state-owned banks are less productive than …

--is part of a larger effort in the group to study the effects of bank privatization in developing countries"--World Bank web …"Beck, Cull, and Jerome assess the effect of privatization on performance in a panel of Nigerian banks for the period …

transparency and accountability in government and industry alike. "--World Bank web site …

conducive to crisis can also be associated with more unequal societies."--World Bank web site …

the Finance Team, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the Bank to provide research on what works to … strengthen countries' financial systems"--World Bank web site …