data for the period 1991-2001, we examine the influence of foreign banks on the financing of small firms in Tanzania …. Despite dominating the banking sector, results suggest that the financing of small firms by foreign banks is insignificant … compared to domestic banks. Clearly, there is a need for a new approach to policy that will encourage significant foreign bank …

that the regulation and supervision of banks varies widely across countries in many different dimensions. Furthermore …

banks in emerging countries over a period of five years (2004-2008) as a simple, we tried to test empirically the effect of … regulation, competition (externalities) and ownership (internal effect) on risk-taking behavior of banks ex-ante and ex-post the … differ from the average significantly; the gap shows the heterogeneity of the sample selected which includes banks emerging …

, and local versus nonlocal banks – in banking relationships. The conventional paradigm suggests that “community banks …

This article estimates bank-specific profit efficiency of three broad ownership groups of Indian banks during the …-liberalisation period, public sector banks in India are the best performers in terms of estimated profit efficiency. Further, foreign banks … operating in India record higher profit efficiency levels compared to domestic private banks. The introduction of prudential …

that the regulation and supervision of banks varies widely across countries in many different dimensions. Furthermore …