This paper examines the evolution of market structure in emerging market banking systems during the 1990s. While …

-98. It argues that country-specific banking sector features, the size of bad loans inherited from the centrally planned … costs and overall improvement in banking sector performance for the sample countries as a whole …

Banking sectors in transition economies have experienced major transformations throughout the 1990s. While some …) consolidation is likely to improve the efficiency of banking operations. Overall, the results confirm the usefulness of DEA for … transition-related applications and shed some light on the question of the optimal architecture of a banking system …

The aim of this paper is to take a closer look at IMF conditionality in the banking sector. Our analysis shows that …-supported banking sector reform strategies has contributed to an improvement in banking sector performance, increases in the hardness …

of Japanese banks has steadily improved since 2001, but there are significant differences within the banking sector, with …

supports strong and sustainable economic growth. The recent proposals of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on …-in periods. The analysis of the paper also suggests that the new capital standards will have a significant impact on investment-banking …-type activities, including through tighter requirements for trading book exposures. Investment banking activities will also be …

. While most of these effects are stronger in crisis times, we find them to operate both in and outside full-blown banking …