The paper estimates and compares cost efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in Thailand by using bank-panel data … significant acquisitions by foreign banks after the 1997 financial crisis. The widely used translog functional form specification … domestic and foreign banks are indistinguishable, although the two types of banks focus on different areas of the banking …

exogeneity tests indicate that both decisions are only endogenous to one another for banks that start using swaps for the first … time. For other banks, the maturity gap is exogenous to the decision to use swaps, but the reverse relationship is … endogenous. For banks with trading activity, both decisions are exogenous to one another. We interpret these findings as the …

I investigate how banks manage liquidity as specified in the German prudential liquidity regulation, which combines a … obligations are endogenous and test whether banks whose liquidity is already close to the regulatory threshold purchase additional … decreasing illiquid assets, such as new long-term loans, and increasing liquid assets. The results suggest that commercial banks …

banks in the time period between 1995 and 2013, before the Basel III liquidity regulation to address excessive maturity …

wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008. We show that owner controlled banks had higher profits in the years before the … manager-controlled banks. The results are robust to controlling for a wide variety of bank specific, country specific … shareholders may not be socially optimal in banks. …

-firm relationship and show that the bank?s decision to liquidate bad firms has two opposing effects. First, the bank receives a payoff …

economy. We present a model of credit reallocation and focus on the role of banks: Weakly capitalized banks hesitate to write …