bank managers and regulators in China as well as in other emerging economies …This paper investigates the effects of focus versus diversification on bank performance using data on Chinese banks …

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 …

We investigate whether a bank’s performance during the 1998 crisis, which was viewed at the time as the most dramatic … crisis since the Great Depression, predicts its performance during the recent financial crisis. One hypothesis is that a bank …. Another hypothesis is that a bank’s poor experience in a crisis is tied to aspects of its business model that are persistent …