The wide interest rate spread has been a matter of concern for many developing economies. In Ghana, the perception is that the interest rate spread is too wide and that banks have linked it to various variables affecting them. This study examines the effect of banking sector reforms on bank...

This study aims to examine the impact of ESG practices on the financial performance of the banking industry of Pakistan during the pre and COVID-19 periods. The data were collected from the annual reports of selected banks for the pre-COVID-19 period (2018) and the COVID-19 period (2020)....

Using the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), this study examines the influence of institutional quality on the impact of financial inclusion on the stability of 157 banks in 8 ASEAN countries from 2010 to 2020. The results show that financial inclusion negatively hurts bank stability, and this...

This study empirically examines bank spatial competition within the rural banking setting of Indonesia. The specific focus is on bank cost efficiency. It presents a new competition measure based on two spatial variables: physical distances and Thiessen polygon market boundaries. This study uses...

An efficient bank is more robust to shocks, fosters competitiveness, and promotes stability of the financial system. This study estimates Ethiopia's commercial banks' level of efficiency and its determinants during the period 2014-2020. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Malmquist DEA, and Tobit...

Non-performing loan (NPL) is a red flag, providing signal of jeopardize for a country's economy. With respect to increase in NPLs, banking sector of Bangladesh has trapped in gridlock. This problem has become an alarming issue for bank's sustainability. The present study investigates the...

The paper examines the impact of central bank regulatory policies on market power in Africa. The study presents a representative sample of 52 African economies over the period 2006-2020. The study shows that the individual regulatory policies of the central bank (i.e. monetary and...

There are legal requirements for a bank to be officially listed on the Vietnam stock exchange; hence by the end of 2020, Vietnam's banking industry had 43% of banks officially listed on the stock exchange and 57% of banks not officially listed. Accordingly, the difference between these two groups...

This study aims to provide empirical evidence regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on banking performance in Indonesia. This study examines differences in Indonesian banking performance before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Banking performance in this study was measured using the...