The banking sectors in several Central and Eastern European countries are characterized by a two-tier structure, in which a few large banks dominate the deposit market but are very inactive in the loan market with private borrowers, while many small banks engage in lending but have only small shares of the deposit market. The large banks act as net lenders in the interbank market, while small b...

Asset price bubbles are considered to be a major risk to fi nancial stability. In this article, we show that an asset price bubble poses a bigger risk when banks are exposed to it. This is because when the bubble bursts, banks realise losses and this may trigger bank failures and a credit crunch. In contrast, when overvalued assets are held by ordinary savers, the consequences for fi nancial st...

Banks within Europe have become larger and more international. We use a micro data set to investigate the impact of size on banks Net Interest Margin and show larger banks lower borrowing costs for firms which raises sustainable output. We use NiGEM to look at the impact of banks becoming smaller and moving back into their home territory. We first investigate the impacts on output in large and ...

In this study, we use Stochastic Frontier analysis approach to estimate cost efficiency, economies of scale, and technological progress among Iranian banks from 1999 to 2012. The results show that there is a marked difference in cost efficiency before and after the recent financial sanctions against Iranian banking industry. Moreover, the results indicate that specialized government-owned banks...

  One of the main problems of SMEs is how to finance their investments. The role of banks in this regard is crucial, since they can be a type of sources of financing through lending credits directly to SMEs. The key role of the paper thus relies on analyzing the effect of SMEs financing by the Iranian banking system.   The objective of this paper is to determine the influence of loans demanded...

With the intense competition in banking systems, customer satisfaction has become more important issue in customer marketing. In existing studies, customer satisfaction has examined based on customers’ viewpoint. This study investigates customer satisfaction based on viewpoint of bank managers who understand their customers’ needs. This study aims to examine importance of various strategies tha...

In this paper we develop empirical measures for the strength of spillover effects. Modifying and extending the framework by Diebold and Yilmaz (2011), we quantify spillovers between sovereign credit markets and banks in the euro area. Spillovers are estimated recursively from a vector autoregressive model of daily CDS spread changes, with exogenous common factors. We account for interdependenci...