This study examined the impact of financial reforms on banks' organizational performance in Nigeria between 1995 and 2004. It specifically determined the effects of policies of interest rates deregulation, exchange rate reforms and bank recapitalization on banks performance, and analyzed how...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of management fraud on the global competitiveness of sub-Saharan economies with evidence from the Nigerian banking industry. Five fraud cases involving CEOs of Nigerian banks were studied to determine the effect of such deviant behaviour on...

This article empirically examines the effects of foreign bank entry on the financial performance of Merchant Bank Ghana Limited (MBG) and Ghana Commercial Bank Limited (GCB) in Ghana from 1975 to 2008. The most consistent result from the pooled regression was that foreign bank entry increased...

While US credit unions have one of the highest market penetration rates in the world (more than 40 per cent), they have been rarely investigated by economists. In this study, we use new panel data to provide the first evidence of how US commercial banks and credit unions adjust their employment...

This paper shows that a decrease in bank competition negatively affects local labor markets. Using bank mergers and anti-trust policy to obtain quasi-exogenous variation, I find that a 5% increase in county level bank concentration leads to a 6% decrease in small business lending, followed by a...

While the real effects of bank competition is a classic topic in the finance literature, there has been relatively little research studying the effect it might have on local labor markets. In this paper, I utilize county level data and an exogenous shock to competition supplied by DOJ antitrust...

This paper studies for the first time the links between interbank liability and equity markets (financial exposure), and mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the European banking sector, both at the micro and macro level. Using a binary logit model, the paper first examines - at the micro level -...