The primary purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of bank competition on financial stability in India. We use a dynamic panel model to examine whether an increase in bank competition hindrances financial stability of commercial banks in India over the period 1996 to...

This work analyzes the role of governance of financial entities in the current crisis. Neoliberal economic policies, deregulation and liberalization have characterized financial globalization, giving rise to the financialization of the economy. This paper, using the analysis-synthesis method,...

In this work, we trace and analyze the emergence of the crisis in the Bulgarian banking system as well as the behavior of the central bank and other macroeconomic institutions. The average annual rate of growth in the net profits of the commercial banks for the period 2002-2008 amounted to...

We study the economics and finance scholars' reaction to the 2008 financial crisis using machine learning language analyses methods of Latent Dirichlet Allocation and dynamic topic modelling algorithms, to analyze the texts of 14,270 NBER working papers covering the 1999–2016 period. We find...

The paper examines the impact of business group affiliation on cost of loans in an emerging market setting. It focuses on operational strategy, organizational structure and internationalization policies of business group firms and their impact on borrowing cost of affiliated firms. Bank loans...

Theoretical approaches and demonstrated repertoires in the Islamic finance literature have formed a divergent and inconsistent system that did not truly value the importance of the Shariah Advisory Board's quality and practices. The real impacts generated by the Shariah Advisory Board on the...

This study uses MFIs as a unit of analysis to examine the factors of human, financial and social capital that increase the financing of microenterprises' identification of opportunities and exploitation in Cameroon .To attain this objective, a questionnaire was used to collect data from 207 MFIs...

For successful operation, banks are constantly implementing changes in their organizational structure. These changes are due to various internal and external factors. Organizational structures within the banks are complex and specific for the banking sector, as well as for each bank. In this...