0377-2217/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.07.001 * Corresponding author at: Manchester Business Sc E-mail address: [email protected] (J.B. Yang The purpose of assessing past performances and setting future targets for an organisation such as a bank branch is to find where the branch stands in comparison to its peers within the bank branch network and how to ...

This study examines all bank robberies, completed and attempted, reported to the U.K.'s Metropolitan Police in the years 19921994. It shows the rate of repetition against the same branches to be high, with each robbed branch suffering an average of 1.54 robberies, and the most robbed branch suffering six. Repeat robberies follow the success of earlier robberies, with the probability of repetiti...

I examine the role of bank’s distance to borrower and proximity other lenders for transmission financial shocks across bank network. use a novel dataset small business lending based on information from Community Reinvestment Act, which measures at census tract groups within each county yields rich variation in bank–borrower borrower–competitor distance. document that banks with increased liquid...

This report presents results of our endeavor towards developing a failure-recovery variant of a CORBA-based bank server that provides fault tolerance features through message logging and checkpoint logging. In this group of projects, three components were developed to satisfy the requirements: 1) a message-logging protocol for the branch servers of the distributed banking system to log required...