This study considers the availability of room opportunities collected from a Japanese hotel booking site. We empirically analyze the daily number of room opportunities for four areas. To determine the migration trends of travelers, we discuss a finite mixture of Poisson distributions and the...

In this article we use data from the 1998 birth-cohort from the City of São Paulo for live births and data on deaths from the same birth cohort that took place before the first year of life. Information on live birth came from the Information System of Live Births (SINASC) and on deaths came...

We suggest an additional transmission channel of contagion on the interbank market - the liquidity channel. Examining the Russian banking sector, we and that the liquidity channel contributes significantly to understanding and predicting interbank market crises. Interbank market stability...

Previous researches have found that large numbers of households lack basic financial products. Specifically, the financial exclusion phenomenon has been the subject of increasing interest. The literature shows there are many families that do not have a current bank, a building society account, a...

The ultimate goal of risk management is the generation of efficient incomes. The objective is to generate the maximum return for a unit of risk taken or to minimise the risk taken to generate the return expected i.e. it is the optimisation of a financial institution strategy. Therefore, by...

One learns two main lessons from studying the great quantity of banking efficiency literature. These lessons regard the heterogeneity in results and the absence of a comprehensive review aimed at understanding the reasons for this variability. Surprisingly, although this issue is well-known, it...

The microcredits are short-term loans and/or micro ventures with a small amount of money given to poor people in order to contribute to poverty reduction. In the last few years, there has been a fast growth in microcredits programmes; experts wonder whether those loans are reaching the poor...

The probability of default (PD) is one of the key variables in credit risk management. By using PD estimates as input to pricing and capital requirement calculations, one should be concerned of how good these estimates are. Confidence intervals are thereby a convenient way to assess the range...

This paper constructs a model of the performance of Chinese (Mainland) owned banks operating in Hong Kong, compared to Hong Kong (SAR) owned banks and Foreign owned banks. In general the proposed model performs well under diagnostic tests for net interest margin, non-interest expense, impaired...

The main objective of this research is to provide a detailed perspective of the operational risk in the case of commercial bank. The research is based on the main regulations and procedures in the field of the operational banking risk, and it presents the