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 …

Do financial sector reforms necessarily result in expansion of credit to the private sector? How does bank ownership … Indian experience with liberalization of the financial sector to inform this debate. Using bank-level data from 1991-2007, we …

essential ingredients of models of bank competition …

discusses possible factors that may inhibit a deepening of bank intermediation and more efficient banking in Brazil, two aspects …

Soon after Korea agreed to an IMF-supported program, Seoul Bank and Korea First Bank were nationalized through an … foreign investors. Korea First Bank was sold to foreign investors at the end of 1999. Seoul Bank, however, remained a … government-owned bank, managed by a team of professionals recruited from outside of the traditional banking sector. This paper …

discipline: a weak bank may not necessarily be able to stop a deposit drain by raising its uninsured deposit interest rates …

Bank borrowers'' currency mismatches often result from unhedged foreign currency borrowing in economies where there is …