banks, this paper aims to provide evidence on the effects of banking competition in the Czech Republic. First, we measure … economies of scale in the banking sector, in this way reducing the cost efficiency of banks. Therefore, our results reject the …

The financial crisis has shown that the liquidity creation function of banks is critical for the economy. In this paper … Russian banks. We perform fixed effects and GMM estimations to examine the relation of liquidity creation to economic growth …

competition in all EU countries during the 2000s. We estimate the Lerner index and the H-statistic for a sample of banks from all …

This paper examines how the introduction of deposit insurance influences the relationship between bank capital and … be influenced by the presence of deposit insurance. The introduction of a deposit insurance scheme in an emerging market … creation and perform estimations on a large set of Russian banks. Our findings suggest that the introduction of the deposit …

use the portfolio approach to assess the optimal risk-return combination of a bank’s portfolio, based on data for 32 … exhaustive sample of Czech banks for the period January 2005–February 2008. They observe an average excess of risk-taking of 33 …In this paper the authors propose a new approach to the assessment of excessive risk-taking by a banking sector. They …

-collected database that covers Islamic banks worldwide over the period 2000-2005, finding evidence that Islamic banking development …

This paper considers whether information asymmetries affect the willingness of foreign banks to participate in … asymmetries in the relationship between the borrower and the lender, exerts an impact on the participation of foreign banks in … borrowing firm does not positively influence participation of foreign banks in the loan syndicate. We conclude that information …