Foreign-owned U.S. banks have been chronically unprofitable for more than a decade. The authors employ a profit efficiency model introduced by Allen N. Berger, Diana Hancock, and David B. Humphrey (1993), modified to be less sensitive to variations in asset size, to estimate the relative profit...

In today's challenging business climate, a variety of constitutencies in the financial services industry are looking to professional standard setting organizations to establish and promote Best Practices in the marketplace. Such organizations, working with financial services companies and...

Intro -- GLOBAL BANKING REGULATION AND SUPERVISION WHAT ARE THE ISSUES AND WHAT ARE THE PRACTICES? -- GLOBAL BANKING REGULATION AND SUPERVISION WHAT ARE THE ISSUES AND WHAT ARE THE PRACTICES? -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 2 OVERVIEW OF FINANCIAL MARKETS AND BANKING...

The mid-term and long-term growth potential of China’s insurance industry is a subject ofsignificant interest to governments, business and academia. In this paper, the ‘‘worldinsurance growth curve’’ is used in conjunction with estimates of China’s future GDPgrowth to estimate the...