Per unit bank operating costs are found to vary significantly across Asian countries and over time. The strong … correlation between per unit labor cost and physical capital cost suggests that there exist systematic differences in bank …. Significant differences in labor cost share across countries suggest cross-country differences in bank production functions. The …

productive human capital outflows ought to be considered seriously in Asia. …

Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a benchmark for comparison. The firm-level data …

analyzed as a separate group and should not be combined with other racial/ethnic groups for comparison purposes …

We develop a simple theoretical model and then use bank data from seven Asian economies to investigate the effects on … bank lending of different liquidity management tools used by central banks. We find that hiking reserve requirements to … sterilise foreign exchange purchases will retard bank lending growth more than the issuance of central bank bills does, and that …

and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the … are then related directly to the magnitude of bank losses in the recent financial crisis. Our data confirms that … supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …

and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the …" are then related directly to the magnitude of bank losses in the recent financial crisis. Our data confirms that … supervisory board (in)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a …