, exacerbated by their reliance on bank-based borrowing and a highly concentrated shareholding structure with complex cross holdings …

relationship between banks'' risk of failure, market structure, bank ownership, and banks'' screening and bankruptcy costs. These …,000 bank-year observations for 133 non-industrialized countries during the 1993-2004 period. Four main results obtain. First …, the positive and significant relationship between bank concentration and bank risk of failure found in Boyd, De Nicolò and …

We examine a large panel of more than 100 banks from Argentina to study the effects of bank consolidation on … performance between December 1995 and December 2000, a period of heavy bank consolidation and relative calm. Overall, we find a … positive and significant effect of bank consolidation on bank performance. Bank returns increase with consolidation, and …

commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of … transition countries. In addition to stressing the importance of some bank-specific variables, the censored Tobit analysis … suggests that (1) foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhances commercial bank efficiency; (2 …

African (MENA) countries in the period 1994 -2008. We evaluate bank efficiency in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon and Tunisia …This study examines the effect of financial-sector reform on bank performance in selected Middle Eastern and North … bank specific variables on bank efficiency. Overall, the analysis shows that, despite similarities in the process of …