This paper assesses and compares the impact of internationalisation on the economic performance of firms in the banking sector in Namibia and Tanzania. With the aid of financial ratios and econometric analysis, measures of efficiency are used as proxies for overall economic performance and...

There has been considerable development in the technology used to provide bank services. This has led to an increase in the number of channels which can be used to deliver bank services to retail clients. Accordingly, there is a need to assess the costs of using different technologies to provide...

There is reasonable agreement that effective and well-developed institutions have a significant role to play in economic development. Accordingly a number of studies have attempted to relate institutions to the rate of economic growth and the level of efficiency of markets. This paper assesses...

There has been considerable development in the technology used to provide bank services. This has led to an increase in the number of channels which can be used to deliver bank services to retail clients. Accordingly, there is a need to assess the costs of using different technologies to provide...

Explicit deposit insurance is a safety net that bank regulatory authorities use to attempt to prevent and mitigate the costs of bank failures. International experience has shown however that explicit deposit insurance can increase the risk‐taking behaviour of banks. In this paper the authors...

In general, the 1990s was a decade of considerable and broad economic growth. It was also characterised by extensive corporate (financial) sector failure in South‐East Asia. Since 2001 a number of major (non‐financial) corporations have failed in the USA and Europe. The majority of these...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the impact of industrial concentration on the level of access to financial services in a developing country context. In most studies, price is the only variable that is used to assess conduct. In this paper, we extend the standard approach by...

The issue of whether stock markets reflect economic fundamentals or speculative bubbles is an important one for their potential role in allocating capital, and relates to a policy issue of whether stock markets should be encouraged in developing countries. This article examines the impact of...