identify the optimal level of risk-weighted assets that maximizes banks’ returns in the full sample of US banks over the period … periods with high profit opportunities for banks but quickly decreasing below the realized in periods of turmoil. We place …

Central Bank in its pursuit of price stability. For example, banks have been able to easily find the wherewithal to extend … trends in excess reserves of commercial banks in Jamaica during the period 1998 to 2010 and the challenges encountered by the … major determinants of the excess reserves of commercial banks in Jamaica in the long-run and short-run are the reserve …

, offered by banks to their customers, is analysed in the context of a deterioration in quality of bank credit portfolios, a … are that the more profitable banks tend to adjust lending rates and rates for the longest deposits faster than the less … profitable ones and that the banks with loans of lower quality tend to adjust corporate loan interest rates faster than banks …

Clearly, a new agenda is emerging for private international banks. Political issues such as human rights seem to be a … current concern. But what about democracy? What about political regimes? Are they taken into account by private banks when … they decide whether to invest in a country? Put another way, do private banks have democratic political preferences? In …

concentration and profitability even when the largest banks are excluded from the sample, suggesting that the relationship between … concentration and profitability may act in a generalised structural way. In addition to very large banks, large banks and small … banks also appear to benefit from concentration, but with no clear advantages to lower-middle-sized banks. Analysis of the …

of insider trading law and government ownership of banks. …

In this article we explore organisational changes associated with the computarization of British savings banks while … retail finance. Archival research on the evolution of savings banks helps to ascertain how, prior to competitive changes …

about the high interest rates, economists complain about the default rates and banks complain about the amnesties. After all … exposed from the point of view of parties involved: banks, customers and government. …

savings banks helps to ascertain how, prior to competitive changes taking place, participants in bank markets had to develop …