The study provides new empirical evidence on the efficiency of a dual compared to a single banking sector. Using data on the Indian and Pakistani banking sectors, we analyse the efficiency of both banking sectors in the recent financial crises of 2004-2010. We employ the Data Envelopment...

This paper examines two important issues related to bank mergers in India. First, we estimate potential economic gains of state-owned banks from consolidation. Scale economies, returns to scale and profit efficiency of state-owned banks during 1986 to 2007 are estimated based on stochastic...

For a developing country such as Bangladesh, the banking system is one of the most important preconditions to achieve economic development. This study covers a five-year period (2007-2011) and includes ten sample banks from the Islamic and conventional banking sectors to study the...

The information potential of the internet is claimed to be heralding a new age of consumer empowerment, providing consumers with access to increased amounts of information which can be used to aid decision making. Yet, to what extent does this hold true for pensions? Pensions are complex...

Management has increasingly paid attention to the reuse of historical data that reflect changes of customers, suppliers and organisations themselves. In consequence, many organisations are continuously attempting to look for advantageous connections between organisational variables and use...

Using the case of the CRDB Bank in Tanzania, this study finds that wholesale lending creates a win-win situation for banks, as well as for Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs). Banks minimise costs of lending, widen outreach and 'cherry-pick' the best borrowers. SACCOs are able to...

Recently, in the banking sector, consideration of corporate environmental information has been increasingly incorporated into the decision-making process. This trend is a result of the relationship between environmental and credit risk and the growing demand from banks for this information....

The growth and expansion of firms into foreign markets have resulted in the aggregation of financial information that includes non-homogeneous elements. This paper seeks to investigate the difficulties of reporting on segments of a business. Emphasis will be laid on analysing the existing...

This paper investigates whether current and future domestic and international macroeconomic variables can explain long and short run stock returns in four 'new' European countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). 'Old' western European countries (UK, France, Italy and Germany) are...

The purpose of this paper is to provide some insights into the main determinants for the success of an acquisition. The focus of this analysis will be on the acquisitions in South Eastern Europe and more specifically in Greece. Our findings suggest that the success of an acquistion is linked to:...