This paper combines the static effect of ownership and the dynamic effect of privatization on bank performance in China …

This paper examines the determinants of bank net interest margin (NIM) and non-traditional banking activities (NII). A …

This paper addresses the effects of bank competition on the risk-taking behaviors of banks in 10 Latin American … financial stability, while we find the opposite effect for average competition. In addition, bank size and capitalization are … essential factors in explaining this relationship. On the one hand, the larger a bank is, the more it benefits from competition …

-crisis period, the onset of the global crisis has put an end to this process. Second, bank-level market power appears to vary …

enveloping annual minimum cost frontiers to create a global frontier. The distance to the global frontier constitutes each bank …’s technology gap, which decreases if the bank manages to innovate. Our innovation measure enables us to derive and estimate the … model of Aghion et al. (2005b) at the firm level for the US banking industry. Based on individual bank Call Report data for …

Because big banks could impact competition in rural markets, we investigate the effects of big-bank presence on the … performance of rural, small banks. When competing against a big bank, rural one-county banks operate at lower levels of proit … and fees on loans when a big bank is present in the market. …

whether the targets in cross-border bank M&As are materially different from those banks targeted in domestic M&A deals. The …, and contrary to what one might expect, bank size does not have a different effect on the probability of being a domestic …