This paper examines whether Japanese regional banks entering the banking market in other prefectures, including …-sized enterprises (SMEs), the current Japanese government’s policies for regional banks require these banks to engage in region … was made using panel data from Japanese regional banks. As a result, it was determined that regional banks that enter …

evaluating Japanese regional banks from 2000 to 2009. We extend and enhance previous studies, including Gonis and Taylor (2009 … rate Japanese regional banks more stringently during this period, perhaps because they wished not to repel clients and …

This paper investigates whether credit associations put competitive pressure on regional banks in Japanese regional … lending markets. It was found that credit associations pressure regional banks to set lower lending interest rates in regional …, regional banks in a prefecture whose share of credit associations is from 25% to 30% experience the strongest pressure. …

Non-parametric estimates of technical efficiency of Russian banks are considered for each quarter in the period of 2002 … estimates are robust. Foreign banks are more efficient than domestic banks in all quarters with the only exception of 2004Q2 …, which could be explained by so-called “crisis of confidence” (bank crisis in Russia in that period). Since 2006 Moscow banks …

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 … taxpayer subsidy of such banks. As to the safe half, deposits are not loaned on or invested, thus the relevant money is not put …

applying the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) to a panel of 700 banks, the analysis is based on the joint estimation of a … indicates that the cost efficiency of cooperative banks (BCC) is always higher than that observed for other banks (SPA and … role of the determinants of banks efficiency ("what makes a bank efficient"), it also shows the presence of simultaneity …