We investigate whether ownership concentration influences bank profitability in a developing country context. We focus … on bank ownership concentration measured as the amount of direct equity held by a majority shareholder categorised into …

This report expands into early 2013 studies of the raw performance (profitability) of $457.6 billion of buybacks …. For the group overall, after 13 years, repurchased shares today are worth 13.0% more than their cost. That profit on … significantly worse. This survey ranks each of 232 individual companies' buyback statistics by:• Percentage buyback profit (return …

This study attempts to analyse the profit efficiency of Indian banks during 2008-2012 to offer an understanding of … parametric approach to estimate profit efficiencies of Indian banks. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), a non …-parametric, mathematical programming technique, to estimate profit efficiency (PE) of 66 Indian banks (26 public, 19 private and 21 foreign …

We analyze the profit efficiency of the Colombian banking industry during the period 2001 - 2013. Unlike previous … studies, we estimate revenue and cost efficiency separately and then compute profit efficiency as a composite measure of both … cost and revenue efficiency. This approach overcomes the mis-specification problems of the traditional nonstandard profit …

profitability. We use 2010 bank-level data from 112 countries. Our results suggest that combining positions reduces both ROE and ROA … the proportion of the board members who simultaneously hold a managerial position, the lower the profitability of the bank …This paper investigates how combining positions between the board of directors and top-management affects bank …

The study applies two-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrap to estimate the Profit Efficiency (PE) and … its factors for Indian bank groups. Recognizing the heterogeneity in the bank sizes, we perform DEA to estimate PE for … banks are more profit efficient than small and medium banks. Over the period, private banks showed the highest improvement …