The important status of the commercial banking sector in the financial environment of the economy has encouraged the researchers to inquire into the determinants of bank efficiency. This study focuses on two aspects related to bank efficiency in Sri Lanka. One is to identify the influence of...

The unusual severity of the recent global financial crisis has drawn much attention to systemic risk, particularly its measurement, and the institutions that contribute most to it. This paper provides an empirical examination of the systemic risk potential among banking institutions in Asia...

The bitter experience of the subprime crisis of 2007, the Global Financial crisis of 2008, and the extremely slow and painful ensuing recovery, has raised systemic risk to the center stage of global economic discourses. The crisis has brought home the urgent need for a thorough assessment of the...

Over the past decades, ASEAN countries have made wide-ranging commitments and concerted efforts to achieve financial integration. This puts forth the question of how far that has been realized as well as cross-market transmission in mean, volatility and conditional asymmetry. These issues are...