This study considers the availability of room opportunities collected from a Japanese hotel booking site. We empirically analyze the daily number of room opportunities for four areas. To determine the migration trends of travelers, we discuss a finite mixture of Poisson distributions and the...

One learns two main lessons from studying the great quantity of banking efficiency literature. These lessons regard the heterogeneity in results and the absence of a comprehensive review aimed at understanding the reasons for this variability. Surprisingly, although this issue is well-known, it...

Previous researches have found that large numbers of households lack basic financial products. Specifically, the financial exclusion phenomenon has been the subject of increasing interest. The literature shows there are many families that do not have a current bank, a building society account, a...

The ultimate goal of risk management is the generation of efficient incomes. The objective is to generate the maximum return for a unit of risk taken or to minimise the risk taken to generate the return expected i.e. it is the optimisation of a financial institution strategy. Therefore, by...

The probability of default (PD) is one of the key variables in credit risk management. By using PD estimates as input to pricing and capital requirement calculations, one should be concerned of how good these estimates are. Confidence intervals are thereby a convenient way to assess the range...

This paper constructs a model of the performance of Chinese (Mainland) owned banks operating in Hong Kong, compared to Hong Kong (SAR) owned banks and Foreign owned banks. In general the proposed model performs well under diagnostic tests for net interest margin, non-interest expense, impaired...

The microcredits are short-term loans and/or micro ventures with a small amount of money given to poor people in order to contribute to poverty reduction. In the last few years, there has been a fast growth in microcredits programmes; experts wonder whether those loans are reaching the poor...

This article describes the basic mechanism of non-cash payments in Uzbekistan. The analysis of operations by means of non-cash payment is carried out. On the basis of the analysis and evaluation of current situation, the identified problems, the appropriate recommendations and suggestions are...

First externalities risk due to the size of the companies or the principle that large companies are also at risk of bankruptcy (too big to fail) are examined. The problem is illustrated by a case in which extreme risks with negative consequences for savers and investors are taken. If we...

Changes in the financial market and attempts at implementation of prudential regulation proposals after the recent financial crisis resulted in the scientific conference entitled International Conference on Management, Banking and Finance, held at the Faculty of Management, University of Warsaw,...