The individual risks faced by banks, insurers, and marketers are less well understood than aggregate risks such as …

We use country level data and bank level data from 71 countries and 857 banks to investigate the impact of bank … cost efficient banks, with higher than average levels of provisions relatively to their income, and lower liquidity tend to … have lower ratings. Larger and more profitable banks tend to obtain higher ratings. Higher equity to assets ratio results …

This paper proposes a model to assess risk for banks. Its main innovation is to incorporate endogenous interaction … among banks, where the actual risk an individual bank bears also depends on its interaction with other banks and investors …. We develop a two-period general equilibrium model with three active heterogeneous banks, incomplete markets, and …

This paper studies the performance of domestic and foreign banks in Thailand in terms of profitability and other … pooling cross-bank time-series data with the major balance sheet and income statement ratios for domestic and foreign banks in … Thailand for 1995–2000. All banks were found to have reduced their credit exposure during the crisis years, and to have …

approach model. Reported results indicate that foreign banks were on average more efficient than the other banks, although … their efficiency was comparable with the ‘good’ small banks’ efficiency in early years of their operation. Based on the … estimated results it is argued that early privatisation of state-owned commercial banks and more liberal policy towards foreign …

This paper investigates whether Japanese banks had been following herd behavior in the domestic loan market from 1975 …. Consistent herding during the entire sample period is observed among regional banks, whereas city banks had been following a … from rational or institutional factors, we still observe herding for regional banks in the entire period, whereas herding …

. Objectives: The efficiency score is assessed for each bank and serves as a basis for further comparisons between banks in the …'s relative efficiency. Results: Efficiency of individual banks varied throughout the observed period and not all of the banks … performance of banks in different entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and between smaller and larger banks. Conclusions: The …