Within the past three decades China has undergone tremendous structural changes in its economy. The Editors discuss the recent and ongoing reforms in China's financial system and their role in the world economy. China's GDP has grown almost three times the world average, now only behind the...

We examine the direct and indirect impacts of natural disasters on deposit rates of bank branches during the period 2008 – 2017. Our approach is one of the first to capture spatial spillover effects of disasters on the deposit rate setting of branches based on their geographic distance from...

There have been major changes in the banking system structure and several new banking laws over time that have had major impact on banks in the USA. In response to the 1980s and early 1990s crisis, and the more recent mortgage market meltdown that began in the summer of 2007, the banking...