We study a transitional economy where state-controlled banks make loan decisions based on noisy inside information on prospective borrowers, and may lend to avert unemployment and social instability. In China, poor financial performance and high managerial expenses increase the likelihood of obtaining a bank loan, and bank loan approval predicts poor subsequent borrower performance. Negative ev...

The aim of this study was an investigation of the effect of corporate governance on banks’ performance evidence from Indian Banks. This study tested a hypothesis according to the three levels of a model with three groups including the overall, public, and private sectors. This hypothesis focused on the relationship between different variables of the three levels in the new model of bank perform...

Traditionally texture analysis is approached either by statistically evaluating the distribution of the pixels in a local neighbourhood or by filtering the image with a bank of filters that are applied to capture the changes in the spatial/frequency domain. The aim of this paper is to review and provide a detailed performance evaluation of a number of texture descriptors that analyse texture at...

To understand the corporate performance of Japanese firms in the twentieth century, we have constructed a comprehensive database that includes asset, capital composition, profitability, and other variables relating to corporate governance structure. In this paper, we briefly introduce our project and report preliminary results of research on corporate performance and its determinants. We survey...

In this paper, a novel technique for the design of two-channel Quadrature Mirror Filter (QMF) banks with linear phase in frequency domain is presented. To satisfy the exact reconstruction condition of the filter bank, low-pass prototype filter response in pass-band, transition band and stop band is optimized using unconstrained indirect update optimization method. The objective function is form...

The conventional wisdom in economic theory prescribes that the major role of the Central Bank is to design and conduct active monetary policy aiming at curbing inflation and achieving the price stability. After half a century of endeavors in attaining this target, Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran has gone through tumultuous periods gaining mixed results in its efforts. The asse...

the purpose of this study is to provide a model for performance evaluation of sepah bank branches by using partial indicators through combining controllable and uncontrollable potential variables with performance variables. with description and expansion of performance concepts of branches, a complete list of pre-test variables, including forty nine potential variables and five performance vari...

An algorithm for jointly optimizing uniform analysis and synthesis FIR filter banks for a given input power spectral density is proposed. The FIR subband coder is optimized with respect to the minimum block mean square error between the output and the input signals under a bit constraint. The subband quantizers are modeled as additive, signal-independent, white noise sources. Illustrative examp...

Previous research has found little evidence that banking supervision improves bank performance, possibly because supervision is endogenous to performance. This paper estimates causal effects of supervision on performance using discontinuities in the minimum frequency of examinations imposed by regulation. The bank asset size threshold at which these discontinuities occur changes over time, prov...

Banking sector is one of the most important factors in development of economy. A strong and healthy banking sector is considered to be a prerequisite for sustainable economic growth. In this study, the aim is to apply Gray Relational Analysis (GRA) to measure and compare financial performances of 10 banks with common stock trading in Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) between the years of 2005–2011....