This paper investigates the determinants of banking system fragility by underlining the impact of bank liberalization …

; customer tastes, habits and demand; and input supply changes. Changes in these require adjustments in the bank’s operations … in 2005 made shareholders better-off. This implies the post merger and acquisition desire of bank managements to reward …

the country. Indeed, over 65 percent of all commercial bank failures since 2008 are concentrated in only six states … of the local market conditions and demographics regarding the age and size of the institution. -- bank failures …

during 2009. However, small to medium Islamic bank sample started at a lower level of efficiency. In addition, the results …

. Conventional banks registered growth in revenue during the period, but could not achieve improved profitability on account of … as may be noted from the recessionary trends since 2007. -- conventional banking ; Islamic banking ; profitability …

contrary, the impact of non-deposit funding share on bank profitability is weak. In terms of bank riskiness, the evidence is … consistent with the conjecture that big, cost efficient and capitalized banks are less risky. As in case of bank profitability …Using data on Indian banks during 1996-2007, the paper examines the impact of bank activity and short-term funding for …

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 …

. -- bank performance measurement ; performance indexing approach ; commercial banks ; performance ratios …