profitability of small business credit (and related information) services. The present study employs recently available business … relationship between bank profits and small business credit. Regression analyses are conducted using the rate of return on assets … have a negligible effect the profits of large banks, they tend to increase the profitability of small banks over time …

The typical portrait of monetary policy has the banks and the money supply being manipulated through changes in bank … reserves. However, with only a small portion of bank deposits now subject to reserve requirements, an alternative explanation … requirements for monetary policy. In particular, we identify a "bank balance-sheet channel" of monetary policy, which operates …

regional banks being less cost and revenue efficient relative to both City and Trust banks. While Japanese bank profitability …The paper analyzes the efficiency and profitability of Japanese banks from 2000-06. It uses a non-parametric approach … banks, and the creation of bank consortia to pool resources for asset and risk management. …

We use bank level data to study the efficiency of banks in Sub-Saharan African middle-income countries and provide …

). These include increased competitive pressures on Slovenian banks from EU banks, and the risk to bank-asset quality from …