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Troubling times for the commercial banker : exploring the recent wave of failures
Hendickson, Jill M.; Nichols, Mark W. - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 4, pp. 1-37
That the United States and the world experienced a major financial crisis and is still struggling to recover comes as no surprise to most. Less well known is the fact that over 400 commercial banks and thrifts have failed in the U.S. since 2008. This paper attempts to understand why so many...
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Efficiency in Islamic banking during a financial crisis : an empirical analysis of forty-seven banks
Said, Ali - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 163-197
The present paper measured the efficiency of Islamic banks during economic troubles of 2006-2009 to address the … question if Islamic banks were efficient and stable. This paper addresses this question by measuring efficiency through … extends research, which suggests that large Islamic banks showed an increase in efficiency during 2006 to 2008 and decline …
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Comparative study on performance of Islamic banks and conventional banks in GCC region
Siraj, K. K.; Pillai, P. Sudarsanan - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 123-161
Islamic banking is considered as alternative to conventional banking. It focuses on profit/loss and risk sharing, than interest based deposit/lending followed in conventional banking. Conventional Banking cherishes a long history while Islamic banking gained importance in last few decades. The...
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Financial liberalization and banking crisis : a spatial panel model
Triki, Mohamed Bilel; Maktouf, Samir - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 81-122
This paper investigates the determinants of banking system fragility by underlining the impact of bank liberalization on banking stability during the process of financial liberalization in emerging and developed countries. To this effect, we adopted a panel model with spatial dependency from a...
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Extreme learning machine to analyze the level of default in Spanish deposit institutions
Montero-Romero, Teresa; López-Martín, María del Carmen; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 13 (2012), pp. 3-23
The level of default in financial institutions is a key piece of information in the activity of these organizations and reveals their level of risk. This in turn explains the growing attention given to variables of this kind, during the crisis of these last years. This paper presents a method to...
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Bank mergers and acquisition and shareholders’ wealth maximization in Nigeria
Nwidobie Barine Michael - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 3 (2013) 3, pp. 255-270
Banks operating in a regulated environment need to operate within the fiscal, monetary, political and legal regulations; customer tastes, habits and demand; and input supply changes. Changes in these require adjustments in the bank’s operations. Coping with these require finance and instant...
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The impact of foreign stock exchanges on the main stock exchange indexes in Poland
Augustyński, Iwo - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 1, pp. 1-12
In this paper the author compared 13stock exchange indexes of American, British and German markets and determined their impact on Polish Wig and WIG20 indexes. The analysis proved that the British FTSE100 and FTSE250 as well as the German DAX had the biggest influence on the Warsaw indexes. The...
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Seeking the diversification benefits with foreign equities and commocities : the case of Polish investor
Kurach, Radoslaw - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 3, pp. 26-36
By estimating the correlation coefficients values we compare in this study the diversification potential of the different foreign equity markets and commodities. We present the findings that reflect the perspective of Polish investor. Our results are following: we identify a significant...
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The comparative financial managerial performance of US firms and Chinese firms
Asheghian, Parviz - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 119-135
firms have higher return on equity (ROE) ratios than the United States firms. -- managerial efficiency ; China ; the United …
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A firm level analysis of the exchange rate exposure of Indian firms
Kanagaraj, A.; Sikarwar, Ekta - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 1 (2011) 4, pp. 163-184
The study examines the level of foreign exchange exposure and its determinantsfor a sample of Indian firms. For this purpose, the relationship between exchange rate changes and stock returns for a sample of 361 Indian non financial firms is determined over April 2006-March 2011. The study finds...
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