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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 employing the on-parametric technique, Data Envelopment Analysis...

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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

as may be noted from the recessionary trends since 2007. -- conventional banking ; Islamic banking ; profitability …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 …

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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 … growth and a high real interest rate are on average the most important causes of a banking crisis. Besides we find that the …

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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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Credit market imperfections in the theory of credit rationing

Ślązak, Emil - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 4, pp. 76-91

The article aims at comparative analysis of the nature and dimensions of credit rationing on the grounds of theory of finance. The paper identifies the essence of credit rationing through the prism of its most important endogenous and exogenous prerequisites, assuming the lack of adequate...

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Reformbedarf in der EU-Bankenregulierung : Solvenz von Banken und Staaten entkoppeln

Pockrandt, Johannes; Radde, Sören - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 42, pp. 3-10

domestic banking sectors, while banking crises in turn endanger the solvency of the domestic sovereign. This vicious circle …' excessive exposure to domestic government debt. Neither current European banking regulation nor plans to implement Basel III in … assets and exclude them from capital requirements and large exposure regimes. Future EU banking regulations should aim to …

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Financial markets, bloated governments and the misallocation of capital

Savvides, Savvakis C. - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 2, pp. 201-219

banking as well as their own involvement in financial derivatives has led towards a situation of systematic gross …

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Ownership structure and efficiency of Tunisian banking sector

Anis, Ochi; Yosra, Saidi - In: Journal of finance and investment analysis 1 (2012) 3, pp. 239-254

In this paper, we’ll try to study the impact of ownership structure (state owned/private) of banks in Tunisia on its level of cost efficiency. While, we have proposed an assessment of the cost efficiency of Tunisian banks during the period 1999-2009 on a sample of 17 universal banks using a...

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