This paper assesses the degree of bank competition and discusses efficiency with regard to banks'' financial …

insolvency risk is reduced. Additionally, the study suggests that mergers and privatizations have a beneficial effect on bank … effect on risk-adjusted returns. The study also finds that a bank''s insolvency risk is reduced significantly through mergers …We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on …

clear systemic risk; (2) assistance should be tied to a comprehensive restructuring program, minimize fiscal cost, be …

In nearly every major financial crisis of the past decade-from East Asia to Russia, Turkey, and Latin America …

) whether capital or liquidity was the binding constraint; (ii) factors influencing banks’ decision to hold capital; and (iii …) their pricing behavior. Using quarterly data for the largest U.S. banks, the paper finds that capital, rather than liquidity …, constrained lending. Banks took actions to increase capital by slowing lending and raising profit margins, not fully passing …

This paper discusses the role of asset management companies (AMCs) in facilitating bank restructuring and specifies … a combination of strategies that will vary from bank to bank and country to country. There are, however, common factors …

Bonds issued by the government or government agencies are often used to finance bank restructuring following a systemic … crisis. Many conflicting considerations affect the design of the bonds used to pay for public sector investment in bank … risks, laying the foundation for future banking sector problems. Sovereign default makes publicly financed bank …

Systemic bank restructing aims to improve bank performance - that is, restore solvency and profitability, improve the …

This paper explores how the global turmoil affected the risk of banks operating in Chile, and provides evidence that … default risk codependence, or CoRisk, between Chilean banks and global financial institutions. The results suggest that the … paper concludes by assessing government measures aimed at reducing systemic risk in the domestic banking sector and the …

-specific characteristics are found to have a considerable influence on bank efficiency …This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002 … acquired by global banks in a wave of acquisitions during 2005-07 can keep up with the local institutions. The efficiency of …