This thesis applies innovative methods to the efficiency and productivity analysis of the Australian banking system … on industry productivity and the changing nature of banking and the role of risk in measuring bank value-added. The … latter leads to the construction of a new bank production model, emphasising risk management as part of a bank?s value …

In the current competitive scenario, the banking industry must contend with multiple challenges tied to regulations … new strategies for sustainable growth. Banking institutions that can address these emerging challenges and opportunities … international banking institutions. Papers in this collection focus on the digital transformation of the banking industry and its …

requires assessing both efficiency and risk factors, so Laeven also introduces a measure of risk taking. This risk measure … foreign-owned - tended to be heavy risk takers. Most of them had excessive credit growth. - Laeven uses a linear programming … helps predict which banks were restructured after the crisis of 1997. Laeven finds that foreign-owned banks took little risk …