As the euro area has a predominantly bank-based financial system, changes in the composition and strength of banks … developments in banks’ balance sheets, profitability and risk-bearing capacity and analyses their relevance for monetary policy. We …

If banks solve an inter-temporal problem under adverse selection and moral hazard, then bank specific factors …, regulatory and supervisory features, market structure, and macroeconomic factors affect banks loan interest rates and their … spread over deposit interest rates. To examine post financial-reform interest rate pass through for Indian banks after …

unweighted leverage ratio, we find the risk-weighted asset ratio to be a superior predictor of bank failure when banks operate … leverage ratio is the more reliable predictor.  However, when banks do not operate under Basel II rules, both ratios perform … banks with low initial levels of Tier 1 capital and in banks that adopted Basel II rules early.  We find tangible common …

The big Chinese state-owned banks came as winners out of the global financial crisis. According to the Banker ranking …, Chinese banks led the global banking profitability ranking through the years from 2008 to 2010 and contributed one fifth of …. However, the low efficiency in Chinese banks is still persistent, as evident in many empirical studies (e.g. Feyzioglu, (2009 …

opportunity to Greek banks to take a deep breath and get rid of a very large volume of non-performing loans from their balance … sheets, and secondly, the vital role of strategy nowadays in both the survival and growth of banks. …