We document the development of the major international banks since the late nineties, analysing balance sheet data for … crisis, showed all its shortcomings when the crisis erupted. European banks highlighted greater fragilities in their business …. Moreover, the contemporaneous effort by banks to move in this direction is likely to strengthen this shift. …

Financial intermediaries perform indirect financing, and in this context, commercial banks are very important … monetary policy is closely linked to the functioning of the banking system. Kosovo’s Commercial Banks performance is … banks are greatly and directly affected by the net interest margin, provisions for loan losses, revenues and expenses by the …

This paper estimates euro area banks’ internal target capital ratios and investigates whether banks’ adjustment to the … banks and country-specific macro-variables, a partial adjustment model is estimated in a panel context. The results indicate …, first, that an increase in the riskiness of banks’ balance sheets positively influences banks’ target capital ratios. On the …

determinant variables in banks’ risk taking since the beginning of the years 2000. …

towards major banks are safe has been fundamentally questioned. This put industrial corporates, who to support their business …

The huge presence of foreign banks in CEECs leads to a strong dependence to banking foreign claims. They may be cross …-border claims or claims of foreign subsidiaries located in the host country. Are foreign banks a factor that attracts foreign claims … financing on all sectors in CEECs. Tests with panel data show that the presence of foreign banks is a substitute for banking …

performed on a sample of 15,399 banks from major OECD countries over the period 2002–2009. The results show that market power …

When does the general public lose trust in banks? We provide empirical evidence using responses by Dutch survey …. Negative media reports, falling stock prices, and opaque product information also affect trust in banks. Experiencing a bank …