In light of the growing finance - private sector - economic growth findings, this article examines, from a supply - side perspective, obstacles to private sector financing in Fiji, a representative South Pacific small island, growth deprived, fragile economy. A survey of 80 percent of the formal...

This article investigates the determinants of Net Interest Margins (NIM) of banks in Fiji, a Small Island Developing State (SIDS) in the South Pacific, over the period 2000-2010. Based mainly on the Ho and Saunders' (1981) dealership model and extensions thereto, this study uses a number of...

This is the first study to simultaneously estimate the influence of market power and efficiency on profitability of banks in a Pacific Island context. Two market power hypotheses — the Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) and the Relative-Market-Power (RMP) hypotheses together with two measures...