with change technology and globalization process, financial bazaars has accost with competitive pressure for improve performance. a way to address such circumstance is through privatization. therefore, present study tries to evaluate and compare the financial performance of public and private commercial banks between 2006 through 2009 by using the constituents of camel model. statistical sample...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether herd behavior exists or not between di®erent types of Japanese banks. Using data of loans outstanding by types of banks from 1980 to 2000, we investigate statistical causality between loans from di®erent types of banks in Japan. Time-series analysis manifested the causality from city banks to regional banks, from long-term credit banks to city banks, ...

Democratic elections must necessarily be about change1 Events change between elections, and thus newgovernment responses are required. Voters’ preferences may change in reaction to events and their changing life circumstances. And political parties also may reevaluate their positions in the light of new circumstances or the positions of competing parties. This potential for change contributes t...

In this paper, we experimentally study the problem of querying the web in a hybrid language, namely Greeklish. Greeklish is the transliteration of Greek in Latin characters of the ASCII code. Although Greeklish emerged as a convenient mean for the creation and distribution of digital data at a time when Unicode Transformation Format was not supported for the Greek alphabet, nevertheless it is s...

An asset network systemic risk (ANWSER) model is presented to investigate the impact of how shadow banks are intermingled in a financial system on the severity of financial contagion. Particularly, the focus of this study is the impact of the following three representative topologies of an interbank loan network between shadow banks and regulated banks. (1) Random mixing network: shadow banks a...

If we consider an n x n image as an n2 dimensional vector, then images of faces can be considered as points in this n2-dimensional image space. Our previous studies of physical transformations of the face, including translation, small rotations and illumination changes, showed that the set of face images consists of relatively simple connected sub-regions in image space [1]. Consequently linear...

 This paper investigates the financial stability, measured by z-score technique in Islamic banking system of 20 countries from 2000 to 2010. We compare the stability of Islamic banks to the commercial banks, before and after the financial crisis. The empirical results from panel estimation show that: a) the large Islamic banks are more stable than the large commercial banks and furthermo...

T he cyclical banks have different behavior than other banks. The structure of the balance sheet in cyclical banks is different from anti-cyclical banks. The cyclical banks have a relationship between leverage growth and asset growth while the other banks have no relationship between asset growth and leverage growth in the banking system. This relationship depends on the structure of...

The aim of the study is to present the efforts of the Greek physicians to introduce a malaria control and eradication program in Greece. It is based on the proceedings of the Greek Anti-Malaria League and on medicohistorical studies. Due to political, economic and military reasons the Greek State seemed weak to develop a dedicated plan to eradicate malaria. Hence, the Greek Anti-Malaria League ...

Corporate governance (CG) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles, which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. This study focused on the state of Corporate Governance (CG) in two categories of the banking industries: Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks. As Conventional Banks and Islamic Banks differ a great deal in the...