Using data on Indian banks during 1996-2007, the paper examines the impact of bank activity and short-term funding for … bank returns and risks. The findings indicate that larger, fast growing financial firms tend to have higher fee income … contrary, the impact of non-deposit funding share on bank profitability is weak. In terms of bank riskiness, the evidence is …

1994. One of the purposes of the branching restriction was to avoid bank concentration. The following paper addresses the … influence of the state deregulation on commercial banks’ efficiency within the US. We calculate an indicator of bank efficiency … branching law deregulation on bank’s efficiency. The analysis is complemented with a failure prediction model using these DEA …

government capital injections by providing an option-based illustration of how the capped ratio schedule can influence bank … interest margins and failure probability. We show that a declining capped ratio increases a bank’s volume of lending at a … reduced margin and further increases its default risk. The capped ratio schedule as such makes the bank less prudent and more …

; customer tastes, habits and demand; and input supply changes. Changes in these require adjustments in the bank’s operations … in 2005 made shareholders better-off. This implies the post merger and acquisition desire of bank managements to reward …

. -- bank performance measurement ; performance indexing approach ; commercial banks ; performance ratios …