period 1998-2005 and discusses the results from the perspective of corporate bank strategy. Methodologically the existing … concentration of the national financial sector have a considerable impact on a bank's financial performance. Both issues proved to …

approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of … ignores differences in bank product quality and design, as well as the attractiveness of innovations. We measure competition …

level of bank capital is. We use empirical evidence on UK banks to assess costs; we use data from shocks to incomes from a …

We provide the first empirical tests for financial protectionism, defined as a nationalistic change in bank's lending … foreigners. We use a bank-level panel data set spanning all British and foreign banks providing loans within the United Kingdom …

On 29th - 30th March 2007, SUERF and the Central Bank of Cyprus jointly organized a Seminar: Corporate Governance in … paper based on a keynote address, Spyros G. Stavrinakis, Central Bank of Cyprus gives an overview of the legal framework for … the lead in establishing and approving ethical standards and corporate values for itself and for the bank's senior …

Systemic risk now occupies centre stage in discussions of bank regulatory reform. Systemic risk is often seen as a …