sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The … attributed to technological progress. The empirical findings suggest that both the domestic and foreign banks have exhibited …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both markets engaged heavily in mergers and acquisitions. We analyze how these … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change …

productivity focused on conventional banks, but few have been done on Islamic banks. Therefore, the present study attempts to close … the gap in the literature by investigating the productivity of Islamic and conventional banks in the context of the Middle … East, Southeast Asia and South Asia regions. The sample is comprised of 385 banks (66 Islamic banks and 319 conventional …

This paper examines the ramification of government capital injections into financially distressed banks during the 1997 … struggling "zombie" firms. The empirical results suggest that banks, post-injection, increased lending to both high …

The big Chinese state-owned banks came as winners out of the global financial crisis. According to the Banker ranking …, Chinese banks led the global banking profitability ranking through the years from 2008 to 2010 and contributed one fifth of …. However, the low efficiency in Chinese banks is still persistent, as evident in many empirical studies (e.g. Feyzioglu, (2009 …

, and the interaction with banks’ risk management, supervisory tools and statistical requirements. It also examines how the … application of fair value accounting to banks’ trading book has impacted their share price volatility. It is concluded that the …

This paper reports estimates of the long-run costs and benefits of banks funding more of their assets with loss … of the benefits from having banks use more equity no estimate of costs - however accurate - can tell us what the optimal … level of bank capital is. We use empirical evidence on UK banks to assess costs; we use data from shocks to incomes from a …

This paper analyzes the influence of market discipline on the risk-taking incentives of banks. It is shown that market … discipline reduces risk if banks can credibly commit to a given level of risk before the interest rate on deposits is set. If … in risk. The reason is that rational depositors anticipate the banks' behavior and therefore ask for a higher risk …

'transform major banks into internationally competitive joint-stock commercial banks with appropriate corporate governance … the international best practices in bank governance and regulation and listing of major banks at the Hong Kong stock … exchange. This strategy has been successful in stabilizing the three major banks. However, our review of academic and …