One of the major objectives of Indian banking sector reforms was to encourage operational self-sufficiency, flexibility and competition in the system and to increase the banking standards in India to the international best practices. The second phase of reforms began in 1997 with aim to...

Practitioners and regulators increasingly rely on economic theory to measure bank efficiency and liken institutes with each other. These studies lean first on several methods that could be either stochastic or deterministic and second the input-output definition is based on a production or...

This paper investigates how depositor information problems affect bank reporting quality. Using plausibly exogenous deposit windfalls coming from shale and oil leases, I find that banks exposed to shale booms provide higher reporting quality, measured as loan loss provision timeliness, compared...