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has any role in the economic development of Bangladesh, using district-level data to estimate a spatial model. We find … theoretical literature is indeed correct, that financial development facilitates growth, but that Bangladesh exhibits a pattern …
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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 …
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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 …
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of insider trading law and government ownership of banks. …
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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 …
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This paper considers the extent of retail banking integration in the Communauté Economique et Monétaire d'Afrique Centrale (CEMAC) and the level of bank competition at the regional level. Using a mix of quantitative and qualitative indicators, the paper finds some evidence of price convergence...
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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. …
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savings banks helps to ascertain how, prior to competitive changes taking place, participants in bank markets had to develop …
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This paper traces developments from the inception of the 1988 Basel Capital Accord to its present form (Basel II). In highlighting the flaws of the 1988 Accord, an evaluation is made of the Basel Committee’s efforts to address such weaknesses through Basel II. Whilst considerable progress has...
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The modern economic theory implemented today is inherently flawed. Unfortunately these flaws are not apparent in contemporary economic theory which is built on the idea that scarcity is an ever present condition; an approach referred to as scarce resource theory (SRT) in operating level...
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