This paper attempts to examine whether bank product expansion into non-interest income products enhances the level of … information content in bank stock prices. Using a sample of publicly-traded commercial banks in Asia over the period 2002 …-2008, this paper finds that bank product expansion into non-interest income activities generally enhances information content in …

This paper investigates the impact on financial stability of bank competition in emerging markets by taking into … largest banks, suggesting that the impact of bank competition is conditional on the extent to which the banking industry may … benefit from too-big-to-fail subsidies. Overall, this paper has policy implications for bank consolidation policies and the …

This paper investigates the impact on financial stability of bank competition in emerging markets by taking into … largest banks, suggesting that the impact of bank competition is conditional on the extent to which the banking industry may … benefit from too-big-to-fail subsidies. Overall, this paper has policy implications for bank consolidation policies and the …

intermediation cost in banking. Hence, bank managers in their efforts to overcome asymmetric information issues and to improve … preserve bank opacity. Our findings highlight that bank opacity issues are even more costly in countries with higher …

bureaus can stem the buildup of bank systemic risk one year ahead due to higher abnormal loan growth. Eventually, this paper … negative impact of abnormal loan growth on bank systemic stability …