M<sc>eslier</sc>-C<sc>rouzille</sc> C., N<sc>ys</sc> E. and S<sc>auviat</sc> A. Contribution of rural banks to regional economic development: evidence from the Philippines, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. The paper examines the link between banking and economic development in the Philippine regions and it focuses on the role of rural banks...

This paper examines the link between banking industry structure and economic activity at the regional level in the Philippines. We apply a principal component analysis on regional banking and economic data for the period 1993 to 2005. We ranked the sixteen regions in three different groups...

This paper examines the impact of bank revenue diversification on the performance of banks in an emerging economy. Using a unique dataset with detailed information on non- interest income, our findings show that, conversely to studies on Western economies, a shift towards non-interest activities...

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact on bank stock prices of the Asian and Russian financial crises for a sample of European banks. This issue is of importance regarding financial fragility and contagion effects within the banking industry. We develop an event study methodology based...