This paper aims to examine the impact of Good Corporate Governance (GCG) practice on bank stability and performance. Governance is measured using the GCG rating that covers eleven aspects. The authors apply instrumental regression to link governance to performance and stability. The study covers...

This paper test interrelationship between risk taking and profitability (ROAA) using two stage regression. We study 150 bank sample for 2008-2014 from Indonesia. Instrumented variable is total risk taking (RT) and the instruments are asset size, equity to total asset, loan asset ratio, loan loss...

The recent banking crises in Asia and Latin America have raised a question on the cost of banking crisis. The Asian crisis resulted in the virtual collapse of Indonesia's financial system. Most of the banks that dominated the system were pushed into insolvency, while the ratio of problem loans...

The existence of the rural bank in the Indonesian' financial market is more pronounced recently than ever especially after the Asian crisis in 1997. The ability of rural banks to shield during the crisis and the state programs to develop small and medium enterprises (SMEs), make the role of...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the importance of bank cost efficiency on capital and risk-taking of banks in six countries in the Association of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) that is, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam. The panel data is...

This paper investigate the determinant of profitability of Islamic banks from the MENA region and how Global Financial Crisis (GFC) impacts on their performance. The study covers 117 banks for periods of 2003 to 2011. To examine the determinant of Islamic banking profitability (ROA), we apply a...

We study the bank cost efficiency category of banks operating in selected countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines. We classify a bank as efficient one when the cost to income ratio (CIR) below 54% and coded as...

Exploring key determinant variables that influence bank profitability is of interest to bankers and investors as well as regulators, as profitability is regarded as a necessary condition for the stability of the banking system. In this paper we conducted a study to determine the profitability of...

English Abstract: This study examines the determinants of cost inefficiency of banks operating in 6 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Vietnam. First, we estimate the cost inefficiency using the...