Bank performance, efficiency and ownership in transition countries

Regulations, Market Power and Bank Efficiency in European Countries

This paper investigates whether different types of regulation may have a direct or indirect (through market power) impact on bank’s efficiency. We use a set of data containing European banks to consider the impact of regulations related to capital requirements, official supervisory power, restrictions on bank activities, and private monitoring on bank efficiency. Our results suggest that offici...

Bank ownership and efficiency in China : What will happen in the world ’ s largest nation ? q

China is reforming its banking system, partially privatizing and taking on minority foreign ownership of three of its dominant ‘‘Big Four” state-owned banks. This paper helps predict the effects by analyzing the efficiency of Chinese banks over 1994–2003. Findings suggest that Big Four banks are by far the least efficient; foreign banks are most efficient; and minority foreign ownership is asso...

Firm Ownership and Economic Efficiency

JEL: D24, L33

Non-performing Loans and Bank Efficiency of Conventional and Islamic Banks in Oic Countries

The Performance of Venture-Backed IPOs in Germany: Exit Strategies, Lock-up Periods, and Bank Ownership

The objective of this paper is to investigate the stock price performance of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in Germany. In the empirical analysis we include 305 firms that went public at the "Neuer Markt", the German stock market for growth companies, during the period from 1998 to 2001. Of special interest is the performance of venture-backed IPOs and here especially the ones in which the ven...