We study the relationship between banks’ size and risk-taking in context of supranational banking supervision. Consistently with theoretical work on unions contrast to analyses emphasising incentives underpinned by too-big-to-fail effect, we find an inverse non-performing loan growth for a sample European banks. Evidence is provided that mechanism operates through enhanced organisational effici...

In this paper, we examine the predictability of the cross-section of bank stock returns by taking advantage of the unique set of industry characteristics that prevail in the financial services sector. We examine predictability in the cross-section of bank stock returns using information contained in individual bank fundamental variables such as income from derivative usage, previous loan commit...

The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of dividend policy in Malaysian financial institutions. Panel data set were constructed from 33 financial institutions in Malaysia for a period of 10 years (2001-2010). The results show a statistically significant positive relationship between dividend policy and profitability, which implies that Malaysian financial institutions distribu...

The paper describes the mitigating effect of self-help groups in India during and post covid-19 situation. study examines potential opportunities challenges concerning contextual differences across within countries. Self-help group has been important empowering its members by providing for livelihood support income generator played a very role situation as half SHG was involved community awaren...

Macro-prudential authorities need to assess medium-term downside risks the real economy, caused by severe financial shocks. Before activating policy measures, they also consider their short-term negative impact. This gives rise a risk management problem, an inter-temporal trade-off between expected growth and risk. Predictive distributions are estimated with structural quantile vector autoregre...

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether foreign bank presence has had a stabilizing or destabilizing effect on the Latin American banking sector. Our results suggest that, while "brick and mortar" operations of foreign banks in Latin American countries contribute to the reduction of the probability of a banking crisis, there is no significant effect of direct foreign lending initiated...

Loan commitments represent more than 82 percent of all commercial and industrial loans by domestic banks. This paper develops a valuation model for loan commitments incorporating early exercise, multiple fees, partial exercise and credit risk. The model is analytically tractable and easy to implement. Using a sample of commercial paper backup credit lines from the Dealscan database, we show tha...

the present study surveys the effect of bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic conditions on bank performance to examine the structure-conduct-performance (scp) hypothesis in iranian banking industry. to achieve this goal, we drew upon the panel data technique to analyze the data of eleven public and private iranian banks during 2001-2006. firstly, productivity was calculated by usi...

In stock markets, information plays a crucial role in determining trading dynamics and price discovery. the investment decisions, an investor may have incomplete regarding firm-specific factors because of asymmetry. Therefore, investors rely on market factors. Extensive work has been done synchronicity (SYNCH) from dual banking system viewpoint. present study examines association Stock Price Sy...

The magnitude and frequency of recent financial crises underscore the importance of understanding financial instability for the purpose of crisis prevention and crisis management. This paper brings together and adds structure to the theoretical literature on financial instability and the implications they carry for policy-makers. In addition to clarifying the theoretical underpinnings for study...