bank interest margins in that region using bank and country-level data from 85 countries, including 14 Latin American … intermediation, such as inflation and bank profit taxation …

relationship between banks'' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks'' screening and bankruptcy costs. These …,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First …, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolò and …

discipline bank behavior. By controlling for a more comprehensive set of risk/return factors, the study improves upon …

developments in Chile and outside, but bank responses are highly heterogeneous. To reduce the number of variables linked to the … magnitude and persistence of responses of bank credit risk can vary across banks in the system …

significant bank consolidation has been taking place in these countries, reflected in a sharp decline in the number of banks, this …

commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of … transition countries. In addition to stressing the importance of some bank-specific variables, the censored Tobit analysis … suggests that (1) foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhances commercial bank efficiency; (2 …