aspects of bank behavior (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, 2009), these results are of interest to bank regulators and …This paper investigates the relation between bank dividends and bank risk over the period 1984–2011, and assesses the … existence of risk-taking and risk-shifting in the US commercial banking sector subject to regulatory regime changes. The …

the security level for each bank in each period, we find that during the crisis, banks with higher trading expertise …

). This is attributed to the severe political intervention and weak incentives to follow prudent bank management practices for … findings have important implications for the ongoing reform in the Chinese banking sector. …

sustainability and change in the banking sector in Serbia. The main aim of this study is to assess sustainability and readiness for …This paper examines the issues of sustainable banking and readiness for change using the mixed methods research … approach. The research setting consisted of an international bank which operates in Serbia. Serbia is one of Western Balkan …

In the decade following the 1998 financial crisis Russia’s banking system grew much larger and stronger – indeed … important improvements, some weaknesses in prudential supervision remained, and the Russian banking sector continued to have too … many very small banks doing little if any banking business. This paper discusses the policy imperatives in the short term …

This paper shows that transparency in banking can be harmful from a social planner’s point of view. According to our … model, enhancing transparency above a certain level may lead to the inefficient liquidation of a bank. The reason lies in … the downside risk. Accordingly, depositors will not take into account possible future upside gains of the bank when …

supervision, steps to increase transparency in the sector, and measures to facilitate the development of specific banking …This paper examines the state of the Russian banking sector in 2004 and assesses the most important reform initiatives … activities. The overall conclusion that emerges from this analysis is that the Russian authorities’ approach to banking reform is …

This paper shows that transparency in banking can be harmful from a social planner's point of view. According to our … model, enhancing transparency above a certain level may lead to the inefficient liquidation of a bank. The reason lies in … the downside risk. Accordingly, depositors will not take into account possible future upside gains of the bank when …

From the 1980s onwards the banking sectors in all the industrialised countries have been experiencing intense … behind such restructuring processes, the globalisation of the credit markets, the consolidation of banking structures, the … integration of the banking systems lead to a narrowing or a widening of the development gap between regions? What relations will …