Corporate governance (CG) in banking industry of Thailand has evolved significantly after the 1997 Asia Crisis. The … international standard such as OECD and BIS guidelines has been closely followed. Bank of Thailand (BoT) has continuously updated …

economies. These changes are manifest in declining bank lending growth and can be attributed to three major driving forces … bank credit. In response to declining lending growth and profits, banks have been diversifying their customer base and … scope of activities. Alternative strategies to restore profitability and stay afloat in the global competition arena are …

We examine which traditional asset pricing variables together with bank-specific accounting variables explain the cross …-sectional variation of future bank stock returns, using a firm-level data of eight Asian countries. Our empirical evidence shows that … exchange rate risk, firm size, the book-to-market ratio, and the net income ratio are important in explaining future bank stock …

competition. Here, we employ a novel approach to account for IRS that are both unexpected and effective for a bank’s business … theory that monopolistic firms undersupply the market when utilizing their high pricing power in the bank competition …–liquidity creation nexus. While positive IRS per se lead to an increase in bank liquidity creation, we find that a high bank …

This paper analyzes the causal relationship between institutional diversity in domestic banking sectors and bank … stability. We use a large bank- and country-level unbalanced panel data set covering the EU member states' banking sectors … of institutional diversity in the domestic banking sector positively affects bank stability. The positive relationship …

In a theoretical model of the Diamond-Dybvig style, in which deposit-taking banks and financial markets coexist, bank … findings suggest that in particular bank-dominated financial systems are prone to contagious bank runs due to asset price … buffers to weather future crises if the ex-ante crisis probability exceeds a certain threshold. Moreover, central bank …

The aim of the study is to estimate the level of competition and concentration in the Polish banking sector in 1997 …) have been used for the evaluation of competition. Concentration in the Polish banking industry was analysed by using … concentration indices (k bank concentration ratios (CR5) and the Herfindahl-Hirschman indices (HHI)).Empirical analysis shows that …

Bank profitability in the USA was extremely high in the pre-crisis period, yet this did not prevent the current crisis …. It has become clear that these profits were on shaky grounds and also that bank profits were not used to buttress banks …' capital bases. This paper analyses the effects of structure on profitability from 1994 to 2005. Bank-level panel data are used …

The trade-off between bank competition and financial stability has always been a widely and controversial issue, both … among policymakers and academics. This paper empirically re-investigates the relationship between competition and bank risk …-to-default, while we consider the SRISK as a proxy for bank systemic risk. Using the Lerner index as an inverse measure of competition …

We examine the link between bank competition and financial stability using the recent financial crisis as the setting …. We utilize variation in banking competition at the state level and find that banks facing less competition are more … real estate market, we find that states with less competition had higher rates of mortgage approval, experienced greater …