Efficiency generally translates to better financial performance and profitability and, thus, is often taken into … presence of considerations on bank financial performance and efficiency. Such indicators can be used in multiple frameworks … dimensions, it is important to discuss the integration of the sustainability concept with banking efficiency and financial …

The authors analyze commercial banks' profitability (return on equity, ROE) at different levels of creditor rights and … an aggregate score of information sharing in terms of credit bureaus. After controlling for bank size and some … macroeconomic variables, the results indicate that profitability is higher and more persistent when creditors are well protected …

z-score), then apply the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) to obtain the risk-return efficiency score for each bank …, and finally conduct ordered logit regressions of bank ratings on estimated risks, risk-return efficiency, and the inverse …This paper investigates whether there is any consistency between banks’ financial strength ratings (bank rating) and …

performance, that is, profitability and efficiency. Considering bank size, the results show a diverse impact of regulation on bank … efficiency and profitability of banks. This study aims to examine the impact of the introduction of two major regulatory changes … performance. Regarding large- and medium-sized banks, regulation positively affects both efficiency and profitability, whereas …

-oriented regime for merger control increases banks' stock prices, whereas it decreases those of non-financial firms. Moreover, bank … merger targets become more profitable and larger. A major determinant of the positive bank returns, after controlling inter … alia for the general quality of institutions and individual bank characteristics, is the opaqueness that characterizes the …

This unique study examines the interactive role of bank competition and foreign bank entry in explaining the risk … model and Two-stage Least Squares model (2SLS with Generalized Method of Moments GMM), we document that foreign bank entry … stability. Furthermore, the joint effect of bank competition and foreign bank entry brings financial fragility because host …

Though overall bank performance from July 2007 to December 2008 was the worst since the Great Depression, there is …, except that large banks from countries with more restrictions on bank activities performed better and decreased loans less …. Our evidence poses a substantial challenge to those who argue that poor bank governance was a major cause of the crisis …

Are the drivers of domestic and cross-border M&As in the banking sector different? Despite the intense research on bank … world countries, from 1992 to 2007. Our results show that size and profitability have a stronger impact on the probability … that a bank is a bidder in a cross-border deal than in a domestic deal. Consistent with the findings of the literature on …