Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical …

The positive relationship between bank CEO compensation and risk taking is a well established empirical fact. The … global banking crisis has resulted in a chorus of demands to control banker’s bonuses and thereby curtail their risk taking …. In this paper we argue that the cushioning of banks downside risks provide the incentive for banks to take excessive risk …

Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency to survive … suggest that there has been a tendency towards improvement in bank efficiency levels for the largest banks. The findings show … strong evidence of conditional convergence, which means that each bank is converging to its own steady-state and that GDP …

foreign banks operating in China. This paper evaluates bank performance using a Network DEA approach where an index of risk …Risk Management in Chinese banks has traditionally been the Cinderella of ist internal functions. Political stricture … and developmental imperative have often overridden standard practice of risk management resulting in large non …

significantly. The Asian financial crisis and the structural reform had the effect of slowing the adjustment speed of bank …