banks seen worldwide. In this study, we focus on the negative side of bank size which relates to monitoring costs. In … particular, we show that the relationship between size and bank's market to book value of assets is contained by the cost of the … manager to directly monitor the borrowers and by the (delegation) cost of the owner to monitor the bank manager. Using a …

individual bank's productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. We relate these measures to bank market values and find … that variation in deposit productivity explains the majority of cross-sectional variation in bank value. We show that … find evidence of synergies between deposit-taking and lending. Our findings suggest that there is significant heterogeneity …

profitability. In this study, we examine the impact of capital requirements on the cost of financial intermediation and bank … of financial intermediation and increase bank profitability. The results hold when we use equity to total assets ratio as … on the cost of financial intermediation and bank profitability in Bangladesh. In the empirical analysis, we further …

bank. This reflects a higher margin/profitability. However, it also shows less efficiency of the intermediation mechanism …. Therefore, there is no difference between banking profitability and efficiency of the intermediation.Novelty - With the same … well as the implications for the affordability and social justice, there is no trade-off between profitability and economic …

further split the samples of countries on the basis of the median levels of lending and the deposit rate spread, foreign bank …

and Fortis Bank NL in the Dutch retail banking market. The financial crisis delayed the completion of the merger giving …

show that the revaluations are positively associated with (corporate) bank lending. We then find that keeping the … dependence in the bank cost efficiency rankings constructed with the revaluations being kept or dropped. We relate this … revaluations when estimating bank cost efficiency leads to a misleading conclusion that the credit market is inefficient; we show …

The paper revisits the impact of uncertainty on the decision problem of a bank. The bank extends risky loans to private … is endogenized through an information system that conveys public signals about the return distribution of bank loans … raises expected bank profits, but may lead to a higher or lower expected loan volume. Moreover, higher transparency may …