In the context of wide regional disparities emerging in the process of development, the banks have an additional responsibility in India. That responsibility is to enter the under developed regions and to mobilize and channelize resources into local economic activities such that local...

Basel III proposes market discipline (banking disclosure requirements) as a key instrument to achieve soundness in the banking system. Consequently, it is necessary to test the presence of responses to bank risk on the part of the economic agents. This article empirically studies the mechanisms...

Purpose - The study aimed to examine the performance of banking sector in Pakistan during last decade i.e. 2001-2010. Methodology - In analysing banks' performance in Pakistan, ratio measures have been used as they remove disparities and bring all banking firms at par. Assets, Profits, Equity,...

Objective – The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the financial resilience perspective in banks, with an aim to distinguish empirically between Islamic and Conventional Commercial Banks with respect to short term and long term financial resilience.Methodology/Technique – Panel data...

This study provides evidence of bank heterogeneity in Colombiafor the period 2002-2014 and analyzes how bank-specific characteristics determine the bank-lending channel for monetary policy. Toanalyze bank heterogeneity, this study estimates technical (cost) efficiency using Stochastic Frontier...

Theory emphasizes the central role of the structure of networks in the behavior of financial systems and their response to policy. Real-world networks, however, are rarely directly observable: Banks' assets and liabilities are typically known, but not who is lending how much and to whom. We...

This paper offers a basic overview of the practical aspects of money creation. A brief presentation of the history of money and a critical summary of the commonly accepted theories highlight the current understanding of the emergence and operating characteristics of money in the modern economy....

This study investigates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on banking sector profitability in Uganda for the period spanning Q1 2000 to Q1 2021, using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL Bound) testing approach to co-integration while controlling for bank specific and macroeconomic...

This is an unpublished comment on a Perkin's paper that surveyed banking in colonial America. It argues that historians have overlooked a number of abortive banking schemes in the colonies, implying that the absence of banks was not an "entrepreneurial failure." and that the extension of the...