An empirical study was conducted of employed professionals, representative of the marketing and financial services industry located within the metropolitan section of Pittsburgh, PA, resulting in 191 useable questionnaires. The thrust was to investigate the degree of seriousness on the part of...

The financial sector in India has changed over the past decades due to technological innovation and the deregulation of financial services. This study identifies the determinants of profitability for banks and analyses their impact on profitability of public sector banks in India and commercial...

This paper investigates whether current and future domestic and international macroeconomic variables can explain long and short run stock returns in four 'new' European countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary). 'Old' western European countries (UK, France, Italy and Germany) are...

This research studies why commercial banks in the USA failed in the recent financial crisis from the aspect of risk taking by the financial institutions. First, lending risks come from the choice of illiquid assets that affect the quality of loans. Second, risk of securitisation is rooted in the...