The high credit card interest rates in Turkey attracted considerable attention in recent years to regulate the Turkish … results robustly conclude that the credit cards interest rates in Turkey are economically insensitive to the changes in the …

extensive set of bank-specific and environmental factors on the efficiency, since the diversions could not only be related to … bank and of the whole sector are measured by a DEA-based Malmquist Productivity Index (DEA-MPI). Second, the effects of … factor with nine different DEA-MPI models for consistency. Turkey's unique environmental factors, such as the unstable …

of Macedonia and Turkey. It follows a macro-prudential approach, emphasising systemic risks and the stability of …. Moreover, funding and liquidity risks also materialised to some extent, although fully fledged bank runs were avoided, and none …

. Consecutive crises in the early 2000s led to three waves of reformist banking regulations in Turkey: (1) the banking sector …-related banking law in 2005. Results show that these actions had a positive effect on bank lending, asset quality, and profitability …. Findings also support the view that the sequence and timing of banking reforms in Turkey acted as a shield against the global …

Turkey has experienced the biggest financial and economic shock in 2001 resulting a massive overhauling of its entire … beginning providing Turkey nearly $24 billion of financial assistance between the fragile years of 1999 and 2002. After 19 Stand … investor confidence enabled Turkey becoming the 16th largest economy in the world with over $1 trillion in GDP.1 On the …

,300 mergers that took place between 1978 and 2001 to analyse the determinants of international bank mergers. We test the extent to … regulated environments are less likely to be the targets of international bank mergers. Hence, the lifting of regulations can … spur growth in cross-border bank mergers. Also, mergers tend to be less frequent if information costs are high. …

Using a database of more than 2,000 international bank M&A deals completed between 1990 and 2007 and the unique bank … regulation data collected by Barth, Caprio, and Levine (2006), we analyze the effects of bank regulations on bank's cross … premium is increasing if the target bank is located in a country with less stringent capital requirement, more independence of …