This paper attempts to examine whether bank product expansion into non-interest income products enhances the level of information content in bank stock prices. Using a sample of publicly-traded commercial banks in Asia over the period 2002-2008, this paper finds that bank product expansion into...

This paper investigates the impact on financial stability of bank competition in emerging markets by taking into account crisis periods. Based on a broad set of commercial banks in Asia over the 1994-2009 period, the empirical results indicate that a higher degree of market power in the banking...

This paper investigates the impact on financial stability of bank competition in emerging markets by taking into account crisis periods. Based on a broad set of commercial banks in Asia over the 1994-2009 period, the empirical results indicate that a higher degree of market power in the banking...

This paper examines the relationship between opacity and the cost of intermediation in Asian banks. Using a sample of publicly traded commercial banks from 2002 to 2008, our empirical results show that higher opacity is associated with a lower intermediation cost in banking. Hence, bank managers...

This paper investigates whether higher financial literacy boosts demand for financial services in Indonesia. Our empirical results document that individuals with higher financial literacy are associated with higher demand for bank credit. However, the positive impact of financial literacy on...

This paper investigates the interplay of abnormal loan growth, credit reporting system and systemic risk in banking. Based on a sample of publicly traded banks in Asia from 1998 to 2012, higher abnormal loan growth leads to higher systemic risk one year ahead. A closer investigation further...

This paper attempts to analyze the joint impact of foreign penetration and competition on financial intermediation and risk in banking. Our empirical results from a sample of commercial banks in ASEAN-5 over the 1999-2012 period suggest that banks in countries with higher foreign bank...