Per unit bank operating costs are found to vary significantly across Asian countries and over time. The strong … correlation between per unit labor cost and physical capital cost suggests that there exist systematic differences in bank …. Significant differences in labor cost share across countries suggest cross-country differences in bank production functions. The …

productive human capital outflows ought to be considered seriously in Asia. …

Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data …

analyzed as a separate group and should not be combined with other racial/ethnic groups for comparison purposes …

We develop a simple theoretical model and then use bank data from seven Asian economies to investigate the effects on … bank lending of different liquidity management tools used by central banks. We find that hiking reserve requirements to … sterilise foreign exchange purchases will retard bank lending growth more than the issuance of central bank bills does, and that …

This paper examines the relationship between bank capital inflows and financial stability. Using a sample of publicly …-traded commercial banks in Asia over the 2002-2008 period, our empirical results show that higher banking inflows measured by the share … of foreign liabilities in banking reduces systematic risk, but increases bank-specific risk and total risk. A deeper …

and bank managers to minimize the size of non-performing loans. After examining 82 banks from US, Europe, Asia and Africa … predictive power of each bank-specific factor (excluding loan diversification), regulatory variable and macroeconomic indicator …

We investigate the impact of the interaction of disclosure and ownership structure on bank risk. Using a sample of 209 … commercial banks from Asia during the 2004-2010 period, we find that disclosure is negatively associated with income volatility … by individual bank default risk. Furthermore, a deeper investigation shows that disclosure on income statement, loans …