Purpose: This paper aims to examine the interplay between risk, capital and efficiency of Indian banks and study how their relationship differs across different ownership types. Design/methodology/approach: Panel regression techniques are used to analyze a large data set of all Indian scheduled...

Purpose – This paper attempts to summarize the information contained in bank financial statements on the risk management capabilities of banks and then ascertains the sensitivity of bank stocks to risk management. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical framework is derived from a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of partial privatization on performance of state‐owned banks using data from the Indian banking industry during the period 1986‐2003, and test the hypothesis that privatization leads to improvement in performance even when the...

Purpose Under the traditional franchise value paradigm, competition in banking markets is considered to be risk enhancing because of its tendency to raise interest rates on deposits. Taking a contrarian view, Boyd and De Nicolo (2005) have argued that competition in the loan market can lead to...

Purpose – This paper attempts to summarize the information contained in bank financial statements on the risk management capabilities of banks and then ascertains the sensitivity of bank stocks to risk management. Design/methodology/approach – The theoretical framework is derived from a...