The focus of this paper is two fold. Relevant aspects of the Thai crisis are evaluated. This provides the motivation for the incorporation of a fragile banking sector within a Krugman (1979)-type framework. This in turn allows for a consideration of the effects of banking sector vulnerabilities on the speed and timing of a currency collapse.

This case describes how banking in India has changed after developments in information technology in the last decade. The new private and foreign banks, which are strong in technology, are giving tough competition to old public sector banks. Private banks have pioneered Internet banking, phone banking, anywhere banking, mobile banking, debit cards, automatic teller machines (ATMs), and retail b...

We embed the notion of banks as monitors into a “two trees” framework, and consider how resources are optimally allocated between an intermediated banking sector and a risky sector, given that capital moves sluggishly between the two. We characterize equilibrium as a function of the relative size of the banking sector — the bank share — and the speed at which capital can move in and out of that...

The purpose of the research is to analyze factors of serviceability and reliability that could influence internet banking customer satisfaction in China. Moreover, the paper also tries to explain the relationship among serviceability, reliability and customer satisfaction, and to find some major variables for keeping high level internet banking customer satisfaction. The data demonstrated that ...

The study examines the economic consequences of regulated disclosure in the banking sector, focusing on its impacts on the stability of banking systems. In a cross-country study of banking systems across 49 countries in the 90s, I find that banking crises are less likely in countries with greater regulated disclosure and transparency. Specifically, banking systems are less vulnerable to crisis ...

The progressions in information technology have changed the operational aspects of the banking sector significantly. Internet banking has been found to be an alternative channel for the traditional banking as it saves time, money and effort. The objective of this study is to identify the prominent factors that influence the public sector bank consumers in India to adopt internet banking service...

This paper embeds a fully-specified banking sector into a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework. The goal of the paper is to provide a first attempt at quantifying the effects of banking in general equilibrium, in terms of both its steadystate implications and dynamic properties. The paper provides valuable insights into the valuation of liquidity services provided by various financi...

the iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade; privatization, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (it). this paper investigates the competitive condition of the iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the h-statistic proposed by panzar and rosse. the properties of this non-structural methodology make it...

We examine and compare the role of China’s financial system in supporting the growth of firms and the economy with that in other countries, and explore directions of future development. First, we find that the current financial system is dominated by a large but inefficient banking sector. Reducing the amount of non-performing loans among the major banks to normal levels is the most important o...