This paper uses the Panzar-Rosse (PR) methodology to measure bank competition in the European Union banking sector and …

should take advantage of US$41 million funding from African Development Bank to improve employment prospects of graduates in …

nonbank business correspondents? In addition, should the bank commit part of its scarce capital to Tatva Capital, a private …YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government … necessary but loss-making part of their portfolio. To do this, YES BANK created a distinct Development Banking practice, under …

Index as a measurement of a bank's market power. Our findings suggest that cost efficiency, geographical distance, and … geographic distance between bank's headquarters and its branches; and furthermore for firm's characteristics, such as … diversification strategies, risk exposure, ability to control the internal costs on competition and market's characteristics, such as …

the crisis this large bank used soft information to shift its loan supply toward borrowers with lower ex ante asymmetries …

The regulation of bank capital as a means of smoothing the credit cycle is a central element of forthcoming macro …--on both questions, using a unique dataset. In the UK, regulators have imposed time-varying, bank-specific minimum capital … that: (i) changes in capital requirements affect loan supply by regulated banks, and (ii) unregulated substitute sources of …

This paper gives an overview of the recent literature on bank business models, structured along what we deem to be the … supervision towards the analysis of bank business models with a sound economic basis. The bottom-line for supervisors - in our … view - is that it is essential to understand where the profit comes from and what risks the bank or the banking sector is …

Banking sector in Pakistan after privatization of few banks improved its efficiency. Liquidity ratios of the banks have …

financial data on bank clients.This ECRI research report investigates the interaction of credit registers and bank entry modes … exchanged affected the modes of bank entries during the period 1990-2007. Our analysis shows that the existence of both types of … registers increases the share of branching among the overall bank entries. Additionally, the establishment of public registers …

The Thai economy is vulnerable to external shocks because of its high exposure to trade and capital flows. Despite its …