Theoretical foundations in banks' response to capital settlement suggest that the systems proposed by Basel are not … performs a PCA analysis on a set of 13 financial ratios to exploit and compare the financial characteristics of 239 banks (175 … Conventional and 64 Islamic commercial banks) in the MENA region over a 2004-2015 period. This gives the main indices EXIGCP …

find that the introduction of free banking laws stimulated the creation of new banks and led to more bank failures. Our …

regulatory equity and the increasing reliance on banks’ internal risk models for the determination of risk weights. The first …

of this paper is that when the efficient pricing hypothesis is imposed in the form of an average cost pricing rule, banks … will maximally differentiate their product. However, high quality-type banks benefit from increased market power, while low … quality-type banks could benefit from either increased market share, or increased market power …

This paper evaluates the incentives that banks have to herd. It includes a complete literature review of papers from … the last fifteen years, and a model of several banks and infinite time periods. The literature review looks at recent … policy that reduces the costs of over-investment increases the incentives of banks to herd …

. Poor lending decisions allowed banks to transfer risk to the fund, resulting in their capturing returns on performing loans …, activity, and leverage were collected on the largest seven national banks, which control 87% of the capital in the banking …