path fairly long. As the global crisis persists with no turnaround in sight, banks around the world, including those in …

implications – The findings of this study challenge banks to acknowledge the subjectivity of their lending processes and to improve …

diversification strategies and the risk-return tradeoff in banking. Our data set covers Russian banks during the 1999-2006 period and … finds somewhat mixed results. Specifically, we find that banks’ performance tends to be non-monotonically related to their … decreased risk only up to a certain threshold. Additionally, when foreign ownership is either very high or very low, banks tend …

firms. Coupled with imperfect competition in the banking sector, this means that banks with chronically high excess reserves …

Many economists argue that the primary economic function of banks is to provide cheap credit, and to facilitate this … function, they advocate the strict protection and enforcement of creditor rights. But banks can serve another important …

transactions, and use savings for the largest transactions. Finally, the paper shows that modeling banks as suppliers of liquidity …

patterns. The paper also suggests an important role for banks in helping predators accumulate, and avoid the disclosure of …

reported problems include a massive proportion of non-performing loans in the banks’ credit portfolios as well as significant …The paper is analyzing current problems of the Egyptian banking sector, which is dominated by public banks. The … profitability problems, especially in the public banks. Some empirical data is gathered using a bank-specific Return on Equity …