has been associated with a rise in efficiency. Moreover, on average, larger banks and foreign-owned banks have become more … efficient, while smaller banks have become less efficient in the face of increased competitive pressures. …

The large holdings of government securities by banks in India draw attention to their risk as interest rates are at … management by banks. The main finding is that some public sector and old private banks are vulnerable to a reversal of the … interest rate cycle, while foreign and new private banks have built adequate defenses. In this regard, the paper makes a number …

This paper shows that the quality of banks within each country is one of the important factors that can account for the …

We use bank level data to study the efficiency of banks in Sub-Saharan African middle-income countries and provide … possible explanations for the difference in the efficiency levels of banks. We find that banks, on average, could save 20 …-30 percent of their total costs if they were operating efficiently, and that foreign banks are more efficient than public banks …

-bank variation in these elements—that is, not all banks were hurt equally by macroeconomic shocks. Furthermore, using panel data … estimation for the 1998–2001 period, we find that depositors were able to distinguish high- from low-risk banks, and that … individual banks’ exposure to currency and government default risk depended on bank fundamentals and other characteristics. Thus …

banks in 14 emerging market countries. Results show it can predict a bank's credit deterioration up to nine months in …

Clearly, a new agenda is emerging for private international banks. Political issues such as human rights seem to be a … current concern. But what about democracy? What about political regimes? Are they taken into account by private banks when … they decide whether to invest in a country? Put another way, do private banks have democratic political preferences? In …