Since the 1990s’, a relatively ample research has been undertaken regarding the measurement of the volatility of bank … theme in bank performance research. Few analyses have however directly addressed the explanation of the volatility of …

The development of market-based finance and amendments to regulation on bank powers have supported a larger involvement …. Especially, with a performance perspective: does diversification beyond “traditional” banking result in actual diversification of … preventive bank restructurings involving creditors. Scrutiny of banks’ soundness increases. Together with the recent …

Failure in bank corporate governance has been seen as a contributing factor to excessive risk-taking pre-crisis with … managerial incentives on bank crisis performance is scarce. Moreover, bank strategy has not previously been accounted for. Hence …

This paper presents evidence that bank managers adjust key strategic variables following a risk and/or valuation signal … best performing bank(s) with similar characteristics, and a valuation signal when they are undervalued relative to the … average bank with similar characteristics. We document, using a partial adjustment model, that bank managers adjust the long …

This paper presents evidence that bank managers adjust key strategic variables following a risk and/or valuation signal … performing bank(s) with similar business model characteristics, and a valuation signal when they are undervalued relative to the … average bank with similar characteristics (using respectively a stochastic frontier and multiplicative heteroscedasticity …

One learns two main lessons from studying the great quantity of banking efficiency literature. These lessons regard the … perform a Meta-Regression-Analysis (MRA) by examining 1,661 efficiency scores retrieved from 120 papers published over the … lower levels of banking efficiency than nonparametric studies. This holds true even after controlling for the approach used …

A question of explaining bank failures constitutes perhaps one of the greatest interest to banks' clients, policy … economists. In this paper we investigate which factors affect soundness of a bank, taking into consideration micro level data, as … well as macro level component. We also employ efficiency estimate, obtained with the help of DEA, to account for the …

composition of income (share of interest and commission revenue), and to a general indicator of bank efficiency such as the cost … variability in the price of bank stocks whenbanks hold riskier assets and economic conditions are poor. …