We investigate the causal links between human capital, openness through trade and FDI, and economic growth using quarterly data for Thailand over the period 1973:2-2000:4. A number of hypotheses are investigated including, in particular, FDI-led growth and export-led growth, as well as the...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine the association between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and bank level productivity changes. Design/methodology/approach - The paper uses an international sample of 566 publicly quoted commercial banks operating in 75 countries, covering...

<title>Abstract</title> We examine a sample of 17 banking institutions operating in the UK between 2001 and 2006 to provide empirical evidence on the association between the efficiency of UK banks and board structure, namely board size and composition. Our approach is to use data envelopment analysis to...

This study evaluates shareholders' wealth and profitability of 62 large EU bank mergers and acquisitions that were involved in domestic or cross-border transactions during the period 1997-2007. We use the standardised cumulative abnormal returns (SCAR) technique and a long window of 61 days to...

Taxing Banks Fairly offers an ethical perspective on bank taxation and financial stability to complement the traditional political economy approach. It also considers how a bank levy or financial activities tax, could be used to ensure that big banks make a ‘true and fair’...

This paper uses stochastic frontier analysis to provide international evidence on the impact of the regulatory and supervision framework on bank efficiency. Our dataset consists of 2853 observations from 615 publicly quoted commercial banks operating in 74 countries during the period 2000-2004....

This paper looks at whether differences in the form of ownership were not the cause of the productivity differences but that these differences were due to individual firm effects. We also want to examine the belief that inefficiency in the Thai financial sector was not one of the causal factors...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine value gains to acquirers in large commercial bank mega-mergers (with transaction values over £1 billion) that occurred in the European Union during the period 1997-2007, distinguishing between domestic and cross-border transactions....