This study reports the results of a longitudinal study of the association between selected bank funds measures and relative profitability, with emphasis on high-performance banks. Bank funds management is an increasingly major component of bank financial management. Bank funds management has...

This study reports the results of a longitudinal analysis of the nature of the association between selected bank capital (book value) measures and relative profitability, with emphasis on high-performance banks. Capital management is a major component variable in bank financial management....

This study reports the results of an analysis of the relationship of selected overhead expense and related measures to relative bank profitability. These measures include non-interest expenses, non-interest income, and net non-interest expenses. Overhead expense control is a component variable...

The conclusions of study are summarized as follows: (1) Banks manage some asset-related international banking activities (especially loans but also cash) less consistently and uniformly than liability-related and other international banking activities. (2) The identified category of...

This study analyzes the nature of the association between selected international banking measures and relative bank profitability. The measures analyzed are key variables that affect the wealth maximization efforts of bank financial management: (1) spread (net- interest margin) management, (2)...

There are three general conclusions from this study of the international activities of U.S. banks. The first two conclusions are based specifically on the 1980 analysis. The third conclusion is based on the analysis for each of the years 1978-1980. The first conclusion is that these banks manage...

The purposes of this study are to identify the nature and profitability of the foreign and domestic matched balance sheet strategies of U.S. banks, to identify the incidence and performance implications of individual bank strategy changes or lack of changes over time, and to identify the...

This study analyzed a 1988 matched sample data of 176 foreign and domestic-owned U.S. banks that have domestic only offices. This was done to test whether the balance sheet strategies of foreign-owned U.S. banks in domestic markets differ from those of domestic owned banks. The primary impetus...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) was used to analyze the input/output efficiency of large U.S. banks in 1987 and 1992. The former was the year that banks belatedly began to acknowledge financially the increasingly severe problems from loans to less-developed countries, especially in Latin...