banking sectors using the margin between lending and deposit interest rates. Our second variable for the level of financial … accelerate economic growth. The main reasons behind this result could be the numerous banking crises the transition countries …

This paper examines how the introduction of deposit insurance influences the relationship between bank capital and … be influenced by the presence of deposit insurance. The introduction of a deposit insurance scheme in an emerging market … insurance scheme exerts a limited impact on the relationship between bank capital and liquidity creation and does not change the …

Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and …

prevailing banking structures, and a markup on deposit funding costs that captures the transformation efficiency of financial …

This paper provides an overview of the Chinese banking sector, which has expanded tremendously over the past two …, various financial institutions that operate in China are analyzed. Our results confirm that the Chinese banking sector is …-controlled companies. In this way, the banking system can serve as an important policy tool. Another distinctive feature of the Chinese …

those observed in developed countries, which suggests that the Russian banking industry is not plagued by weak competition …