, and provide weak evidence to support their constructive role in improved bank profitability and economic restructure …

The transmission process from policy-controlled interest rates to bank lending rates deserves reconsideration owing to …

ratio of bank credit over the GDP. Banks thus push firms away from exports that are facing an uphill battle on a competitive … foreign market due to a suboptimal use of the domestic factor endowment. Our results imply a disciplining role for bank credit …

Great strides have been made in the theory of bank technology in terms of explaining banks' comparative advantage in … theories to analyze the particular environment of banking. In recent years, the empirical modeling of bank technology and the … measurement of bank performance have begun to incorporate these theoretical developments and yield interesting insights that …

This paper examines whether bank ownership (public versus private, domestic versus foreign) is correlated with bank … bank managers; evidence is found in support of the former hypothesis. In the case of foreign-owned banks, the paper finds …

This paper builds a new dataset on bank ownership and bank performance covering approximately 50,000 observations for … 119 countries over the 1995-2002 period. The paper then uses the dataset to reassess the relationship between bank … ownership and bank performance, providing separated estimations for developing and industrial countries. It is found that, while …