This article outlines a broad framework for assessing system-wide funding risks and analysing banks’ role in the transmission of shocks across countries. It highlights the need to complement essential data on banks’ consolidated balance sheets with information that provides a geographically...

As of October 2008, the new amendments to IAS 39 & IFRS 7 were introduced by IASB as a direct reaction to the financial crisis. Since IFRS followers was given the option to reclassify certain financial assets, it partially changes the mark-to-market requirements, and leads to the fair accounting...

This paper is aimed at exploring how X-efficiency or management quality is associated with one of the most vivid forms of international banking, that is, entering new markets by setting up foreign subsidiaries. The analysis focuses on the supposition that management quality ought to be one of...