period of 2003-2009. The efficiency estimates of individual banks are evaluated using the non-parametric Data Envelopment … scale efficiency in World Islamic banking countries. We find that banks from the high income countries were the leaders by …

of Barbados. It uses questionnaires and interviews to ascertain how banks set their provisional standards and levels. In … addition, the results from this approach reveal, for the first time in Barbados, the individual banks‟ procedures for loan loss … provisioning. An evaluation of the impact of macroeconomic and bank specific factors on commercial banks‟ provisions utilising …

there was no investigation into the recipient banks’ business plans or financial condition to allow restructuring to be … program: boosting recipient banks regulatory capital ratios. But we find that the program failed to achieve another important … policy objective, to stimulate bank lending. To the contrary, we find evidence that recipient banks reduced lending …

-country crises experience; (ii) indirect credit risk due to foreign currency exposures of unhedged borrowers; (iii) varying … underwriting practices across banks and their asset classes based on their relative aggressiveness of lending; (iv) higher … as the relevant outcome indicator to measure the resilience of banks to materialising credit risk. We apply the proposed …

” banks have now merged to just three financial conglomerates that are among the largest in the world. Is this a sign of the … and acquisitions activity during our sample period), the city, trust and long-term credit banks, actually exhibit lower … profitability measured in ROA and ROE than the smaller regional banks. The “Big Bang” did not succeed in promoting a more profitable …

its existing laws that had allowed Turkish residents to borrow in foreign currency from banks operating in Turkey. The … determinants and consequences of foreign currency lending for banks in Turkey in the run-up to this significant policy change. Our … analysis uses detailed foreign and Turkish currency composition bank data for 21 commercial banks in Turkey between 2002 and …