of bank risk and returns to the pandemic. Design/methodology/approach - The author employs weighted least squares (WLS … unaddressed area of research. By focusing on a large sample of banks across countries with both Islamic and conventional banking …

Banking across borders has risen substantially over the past two decades. Yet there is significant heterogeneity in the … variation from an international trade theory perspective. In the model, banking across borders arises from differences in factor … endowments and differences in banking sector efficiencies between countries. The paper shows how these differences determine …

This paper explores the relationship between bank global exposure and their syndicated loan spreads. Linking syndicated … loan information from Dealscan with confidential US bank foreign exposure data and borrower characteristics, we find that … more bank global exposure is associated with a higher loan spread that is statistically significant. To analyze this …

The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple … accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data … the traditional accounting ratios and the sophisticated DEA methodology in the measurement of bank efficiency. GLS random …

For an international sample of banks, we construct measures of a bank's absolute size and its systemic size defined as … size relative to the national economy. We then examine how a bank's risk and return, its activity mix and funding strategy … that a bank's interest cost tends to rise with its systemic size can also in part explain why a bank's rate of return on …

Conventional wisdom in banking argues that diversification tends to reduce bank risk and improve performance, but the … diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … to benefit more from being diversified. This analysis provides important strategic and policy implications for bank …

We study the effects of a bank's engagement in trading. Traditional banking is relationship-based: not scalable, long …-based: scalable, shortterm, capital constrained, and with the ability to generate risk from concentrated positions. When a bank … inefficiencies. A bank may allocate too much capital to trading ex-post, compromising the incentives to build relationships ex …

implications of the US subprime meltdown crisis and ensuing credit crunch for the pursuit of international banking activities, and … the years to come. We conclude that banks will tend to remain loyal to a universal banking model in terms of scope of …