The severity of the global financial crisis has highlighted major structural limits not only at the level of credit institutions' risk management strategies, but also in the financial safety net. There were very few rules at the onset of the international financial crisis, to determine the...

Worldwide governments perform considerable financial efforts to support financial sector and the re-launch of lending. The mechanisms vary from the guarantee and purchase of troubled assets till injecting liquidity, by buying securities issued in order to increase financial institutions' equity....

In this paper we proposed an analysis of the financial crisis impact on the procedures for management of loan portfolios in several banking systems. Despite ample liquidity injection programs implemented by major central banks and government actions, credit risk remains a key challenge of the...

The last decade has witnessed the development of a vast literature devoted to the study of several phenomena like banking crises or episodes of vulnerability and distress, characterized by inadequate capitalization, impairment of the asset quality and of the credit institutions' rating. The...

The present study tackles the banking system’s productivity in a more complex manner, that integrates multiple input, multiple output variables, abdicating from the reductionist perspective of clasical methods, which imposed limits in the number of variables, in the process of productivity...

Data Envelopment Analysis method allows both the measurement of the relative efficiency of an homogenous group of credit institutions, and the identification of those banking activity’s components generating a state of inefficiency. The present study focuses on this last issue, by proposing an...

One of the consequences of the financial liberalization process is the entry of new competitors in the banking system, increasing the risk taking attitude of credit institutions whose aim is to gain a substantial remuneration and to maintain/increase the market share. In this context, an...