This study examines the technical efficiency and productivity of domestic and foreign commercial banks in Malaysia 1994-2000. We find that foreign banks have a higher efficiency level than domestic banks, and that efficient banks are characterised by size but not profitability or loan quality. The main source of productivity growth is technical change rather than improvement in efficiency. The ...

March 2011 Abstract: We investigate whether the relationship between competition and stability varies across different bank types for Japanese banks during the period 2000-2009. In general we find that stability varies across bank types, in that banks with a regional focus (Regional, Tier 2 Regional, Shinkin and Credit Cooperative banks) are found to be more stable on average than nationwide (C...

The study employs data envelopment analysis to a panel of commercial banks operating in Pakistan for a period 2001 – 2008 in order to measure the technical efficiency of banks. Technical efficiency is then broken down into pure technical and scale components. We divide banks into three categories for analytical purposes: state owned banks, domestic private banks and foreign owned banks. We find...

In the paper an attempt was made to study the performance of Indian Banks with the help of CAMEL rating system, taking eighteen banks (eight being Private Sector Banks and ten being Public Sector Banks) over the period of ten years from (2004 to 2013) and then finding out their efficiency of banks with the help of DEA in terms of gaining confidence from investors and ranking them accordingly. O...

This study estimates cost efficiency, scale economies, technological progress and productivity growth for Indonesian banks over the period 1993-2000. Overall the cost efficiency of all banks during this period was 69.82%. However, on average the efficiency of banks prior to the Asian crisis and after the Asian crisis were 79.67% and 53.40% respectively. Moreover, the results also indicate that ...

We document that central banks are discontinuously more likely to report slightly positive profits than negative profits, especially when political pressure is greater, the public receptive extreme views, and bank governors eligible for reappointment. The propensity small over losses correlated with higher inflation lower interest rates. conclude there agency problems at banks, which give rise ...

Scientists conducting research in the field of LGBTQ+ Mental Health, like scientists any other field, have option submitting their work to a more specialized or general interest jo...

Abstract What is the impact of policy interventions on systemic risk banks? To answer this question, we analyze a comprehensive sample that combines an original set bank-specific bailout events with balance sheets key affected and nonaffected European banks between 2005 2014. We find positive significant association guarantees somewhat weaker in long run when regulator appoints members to super...

I am pleased to appear before you to discuss the role of central banks and the financial system in the specific context of the recent efforts on the part of a number of Eastern European countries and the Soviet Union to shift their economies toward more marketoriented and competitive systems. I am especially pleased to have the opportunity to discuss these issues in the presence of the distingu...