of increased risk and lowered capital, banks have tended to improve cost efficiency. The results also indicate that cost … to greater revenue efficiency. In the absence of developed capital markets, competitive forces and strengthened … customers the cost of raising capital buffers and provisioning for risk. …

We assess the relationship between bank efficiency, risk and capital for a sample of Chinese commercial banks employing … three efficiency indexes and four risk indicators under a three stage least square method in a panel data framework. The … fraction to total loans or LLPTL) and efficiency in Chinese banking industry, while the relationship between risk (Z-score) and …

The idea of development of capital markets and hence securities firms had resurfaced after 1980’s in Turkey, the latest … Banking Crisis of 1982 (or Banker Crisis). The number of securities firms were dramatically increased in Turkey during the … tendency is still going on in the securities firm business (Coşkun, 2009a: 2). In this process, some argue that risk management …

propose an analysis of profit efficiency taking into account how the inclusion of a variety of bank risk measures might bias … now. However, most of the existing literature to date has not explicitly accounted for risk when measuring efficiency. We … efficiency scores. Our measures of risk are partly inspired by the literature on earnings management and earnings quality taking …

design and costing of a double-flash 25-megawatt plant using water at 325 F gave a capital cost of $678/kwh, a fuel cost of … 63?/M Btu and a unit power cost of 46 mills/kwh. The conversion efficiency of the plant, including hydraulic turbine … energy from the well head overpressure, was 10.3%. This low efficiency accounts for the high unit power cost. A one-well, 1 …

The energy service company (ESCO) business model could become significantly more effective by integrating the energy-efficiency … purveyor and their capital into the underlying building ownership and operation partnership, rather than the current model in … effectiveness of capital improvements aimed at reducing utility costs in commercial and residential income properties. Conventional …

wood costs. Both calculation methods include a return on equity capital in the costs. The thermal efficiency of the plant … included in this study. The plant location is Newport, Oregon. The capital cost for the plant is $120,830,000 - September 1980 … basis. Methanol production costs which allow for return on capital have been calculated for various wood prices for both …