Banking consolidation is a global trend, but in Taiwan, after the failure of the Second Financial Reform, it does not have a clear policy for bank mergers. This paper investigates whether mergers influence the cost efficiency of banks in Taiwan, and our results suggest that the government should...

This paper investigates the prevailing financial regulatory structures and impact of the current financial turmoil on banking performance in four Asian economies : the People's Republic of China (PRC); Hong Kong, China; Singapore; and Taipei,China. Both the PRC and Hong Kong, China operate under a...

<title>Abstract</title> This study explores the impacts of bank's diversified operations on their loans, the threshold effect of bank's derivatives trading and the impacts on their financial behaviors are investigated. The results show that there are two separate regime effects for banks in large-sized and...

In this paper we employ an event study approach with GARCH process to uncover whether there were positive impacts on the Taiwan’s stock market during the SARS outbreak period in 2003. The empirical results indicate that the SARS crisis did bring negative impacts on tourism and the wholesale...

This paper looked at E-LOAN benchmarking operation and reported on the issues related to the development of internet-based lending in Taiwan from an evolutionary perspective. Some driving forces for the changes and the opportunities and challenges offered by the growth of online lending business...

This paper looked at E-LOAN benchmarking operation and reported on the issues related to the development of internet-based lending in Taiwan from an evolutionary perspective. Some driving forces for the changes and the opportunities and challenges offered by the growth of online lending business...