Using data on Indian banks during 1996-2007, the paper examines the impact of bank activity and short-term funding for … bank returns and risks. The findings indicate that larger, fast growing financial firms tend to have higher fee income … contrary, the impact of non-deposit funding share on bank profitability is weak. In terms of bank riskiness, the evidence is …

1994. One of the purposes of the branching restriction was to avoid bank concentration. The following paper addresses the … influence of the state deregulation on commercial banks’ efficiency within the US. We calculate an indicator of bank efficiency … branching law deregulation on bank’s efficiency. The analysis is complemented with a failure prediction model using these DEA …

between government and bank solvency is exacerbated by the home bias in banks' government bond portfolios, that is, the banks … area, however, a strict limitation of bank investments to cross-border sovereign debt without country-specific risk would …