profitability and cost and revenue efficiency of the banking sector are evaluated. The revenue performance of all banks, and … especially the privatized banks, improved significantly, although costs also rose and relative performance across banks did not …

This paper studies the impact of competition on the determination of interest rates and banks’ risk-taking behavior … entry costs foster competition in deposit rate sand reduce banks’ incentives to limit risk exposure. Although higher …

presence of international banks may not lead to increased competition and provision of banking services if weak institutions … different types of banks, we find no support for the argument that the presence of large international banks would have an … adverse effect on the effectiveness and efficiency of banking sectors in developing countries. International banks are …

efficient banks might help pave the way for greater efficiency …

of the Gulf Cooperation Council, they also reveal that: (i) as expected, banks in Bahrain still lag behind their … Singaporean counterparts, and (ii) there is strong competition from other countries in the region. The paper also finds that in … terms of scale efficiency, the banks in Bahrain operate at the same level as banks in Singapore and their closest …

This paper examines the performance of emerging market bank stocks around the time of rating changes by major … for banks, although upgrades have not followed periods of positive returns. More important, stock prices either do not … participants to monitor the safety and soundness of banks …

-specific factors, such as bank size, liquidity, and market power, as well as the market structure within which banks operate, explain a … interest rate spreads and margins in Armenia using a bank-level panel dataset for the period 2002 to 2006. We find that bank … potential to increase cost efficiency and competition in the banking system …

Recapitalizing banks in a systemic crisis is a complex medium-term process that requires significant government … intervention and careful management at both the strategic and individual bank levels. This paper highlights the range of …

This paper runs the gamut of qualitative and quantitative analyses to examine the performance of French banks during … 2006-2008 and the financial support measures taken by the French government. French banks were not immune but proved …

three large state-owned banks, introduced new governance structures, and brought in foreign strategic investors. However, it … patterns in lending from 1997 through 2004 to look for evidence of changing behavior of the large state-owned commercial banks … undifferentiated and banks do not appear to take enterprise profitability into account when making lending decisions. Controlling for …