parametric methods. Thus, the implicit assumption of serial independence of bank production in most methods has an important …

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 …

There are many studies of bank performance and bank failure in the literature. Most of these studies used banking … to the stability of those ratios through time and across asset size. Many studies also failed to recognize that bank …. These ratios are then used in disaggregated logistic models to predict bank failure. The study finds that the disaggregated …

with the provision of debt finance, the nature of the relationship between bank and entrepreneur can be of considerable …

This study examines the expectations that both small business firms and bankers have regarding the bank selection … significant differences in expectations are noted. The results suggest a communication gap in the small business/commercial bank …

relationship between bank profits and small business credit. Regression analyses are conducted using the rate of return on assets …, holding constant various bank risk characteristics. …

shares of fee income since by expanding into non-traditional businesses the bank needs more capital to prevent the potential … be possibly attributed to relatively high switching costs and to close relationship between depositor and bank in the EU …

scaling effect is neglected in the cost efficiency measurement. The implied bank ranking is robust to changes in the …

This paper contributes to the current literature dealing with the drivers of bank business model changes by analyzing … enhance banks' performance. Finally, bank business strategy and macroeconomic factors are crucial in the determination of …

volatility of growth and profitability are bank-size dependent, and (iii) the relationship between growth and profitability of a … bank. Using a dynamic panel model estimated by GMM for a mixed sample of more than 1500 banks from 65 countries, we find no … evidence of persistence in bank growth. However, our findings suggest significant persistence in bank profitability. Moreover …