banks (specifically cooperative banks and savings banks), their continually increasing competitiveness with traded banks in … France, Italy and Spain. In all three countries, these institutions played an important role in the retail banking sector …

This comparative analysis discusses the differences between the structure and systems of bank regulation operating in … the UK, Germany, Italy and the US. The importance of harmonisation in achieving stated supervisory objectives is also … role which the Bank of England has assumed since banking regulatory and supervisory powers and functions were transferred …

This comparative analysis discusses the differences between the structure and systems of bank regulation operating in … the UK, Germany, Italy and the US. The importance of harmonisation in achieving stated supervisory objectives is also … role which the Bank of England has assumed since banking regulatory and supervisory powers and functions were transferred …

Over the course of the recession during the last six years, central bank officials in Croatia have on numerous … initiated by the central bank, i.e. structural changes of: credit policy of the banking system, development in the external … indebtedness and central bank independence. The modern monetary theories and new central bank strategies imposed new views on …

The purpose is to compare the perfect Stochastic Return (SR) model like Islamic banks to the Fixed Return (FR) model as … in conventional banks by measuring up their impacts at the macroeconomic level. We prove that if the optimal choice of … α<α* such that the banks strictly prefers the SR model. Also, there exists α, gamma and λ verifying the conditions of α …

We document the development of the major international banks since the late nineties, analysing balance sheet data for … crisis, showed all its shortcomings when the crisis erupted. European banks highlighted greater fragilities in their business …. Moreover, the contemporaneous effort by banks to move in this direction is likely to strengthen this shift. …

fractional reserve is unlikely to work for long without taxpayer backing. Changing bank regulations in such a way that banks are …” is debatable. Also whether that split is within banks or involves splitting the banking industry into two different types … of institution is unimportant. It is virtually impossible for a full reserve bank to fail, thus there is no implicit …

role of the determinants of banks efficiency ("what makes a bank efficient"), it also shows the presence of simultaneity … applying the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) to a panel of 700 banks, the analysis is based on the joint estimation of a … cost function and an efficiency equation (Battese and Coelli, 1995). The bank outputs are the loans, the income commission …

between bank stock returns and future GDP growth that is independent of the previously documented relationship between market … index returns and economic growth. We also find that much of the informational content of bank stock returns is captured by … country-specific and institutional characteristics, such as bank-accounting-disclosure standards, banking crises, enforcement …