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

, the study shows that bank credit has a significant positive relationship with the borrowing activity of the banks and on …Why do banks squeeze their lending activity? is an oft-repeated question during the times of financial crisis. This … providing answers as to what causes the sluggish bank credit during the times of recession. By employing cointegration technique …

alia, for the potential endogeneity of interest rates and/or the dynamics of bank risk. Notably, among the banks of the … triggered increased risk-taking appetite of banks in search for yield. This paper uses approximately 18,000 annual observations … on euro area banks over the period 2001-2008 and presents strong empirical evidence that low interest rates indeed …

identifying a host of factors that are likely to influence customer confidence in commercial banks such as average income …, commercial lending, legal rights strength, central bank monetary policy and total annual commercial bank losses, using quantile … regression estimation method, a non parametric estimation process that is based on the premise that the sample median will tend …

Cani (international consultant from the University of Tirana – former Governor of the Central Bank of Albania). The report … commercial banks operating in Kosovo, or 89.2% of total assets in this sector are managed by foreign banks; ii) all banks have … in any country in the region; iv) the banking sector in Kosovo is mainly concentrated in three banks that own 74% of …

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 …

for pricing deposits. Banks often pay no premium on time or on quantity of deposits. On one hand this is not surprising … since the banking sector has been very liquid for last several years and the banks see deposits as a cost, but what is … interesting is that the banks do not price in forward looking expectation regarding the state of economy or country rating. This …

Bank of Central African's States (BEAC). First, with a GMM adapted for a forward looking rule, we propose a reaction … function for this central bank. The result shows that from 1986 to 2006, the formulation of the monetary policy strongly …

most important characteristics of the banking – efficiency and stability in a sample of twelve Ukrainian banks, which are … the biggest one in Ukraine according the National bank of Ukraine (NBU) classification. Our research covers the period …