The banking sector plays a major role in any economy, and it played a critical role in transition of Ukraine from state capitalism to a market economy. In this work, we investigate the hypothesis that, despite the tremendous growth and apparent prosperity that existed before the country was hit...

This paper investigates the effects of home country banking regulations on the performance of foreign banks in Luxembourg's financial center. We control for the main regulatory indicators, such as capital requirements, private monitoring, official disciplinary power and restrictions on bank...

We investigate the impact of earning asset diversification on Chinese bank efficiency from 2006 to 2011. To do so, we adapt the Simar and Wilson (2007) (Journal of Econometrics) approach to panel data context so that approach allows for technology change over time. Regression results reveal that...

We investigate the impact of earning asset diversification on Chinese bank efficiency from by allowing for technology change. Regressions reveal that increasing the asset share of other earning assets is positively associated with bank efficiency. Decreasing the share of nonearning assets in...