banks to form alliances with fintechs. Furthermore, we analyze whether such bank-fintech alliances affect the market … Officer. We evidence that markets react more strongly if digital banks rather than traditional banks announce a bank …-fintech alliance. Finally, we find that alliances are most often characterized by a product-related collaboration between the bank and …

problems? [Yes]; 3) do bank influenced firms have higher profitability? [No]. Coupled with results about the control …Bank intermediated finance has been cited frequently as the preferred means for channeling funds from savers to firms … assertions about the considerable power of German banks and the advantages of a bank relation, empirical support is mixed. With a …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …This paper investigates (i) whether growth and profitability persist in banking firms, (ii) whether the level and …

(MENA) region, as well as the main determinants of the profitability of both domestic and foreign banks. The empirical … profitability, size does not appear to play a role, whilst the liquidity ratio and net interest revenues seem to have a negative and …

about the pass-through of monetary policy. On the one hand, negative rates could lead to declining bank profitability making … interest rates per se. This paper uses a large micro level data set of the German bank universe to examine how banks behave in … this uncharted territory. The evidence found suggests that bank's business model, i.e. the share of overnight deposits …

banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency …This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … restrictions upon foreign bank entry and foreign ownership have been affectively abolished. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA …

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

determination of an optimal rights structure results. It is further shown that an efficiency analysis based on a "naive" cost …