This paper examines the association between bank market power and revenue diversification using a sample of 153 commercial banks from five Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam). The results indicate that banks...

What was termed government-guided merger was a unique banking sector reform implemented in 2002 by the central bank of Malaysia guiding a larger number of depository institutions to form 10 large banks. This paper identifies the factors entering this massive merger exercise. Similar to the...

Der Beitrag analysiert und vergleicht die wirtschaftliche und finanzielle Entwicklung zweier unterschiedlicher Ländergruppen in Südostasien: Auf der einen Seite die vier Schwellenländer Hongkong, Taiwan, Singapur und Korea, auf der anderen die ASEAN-Mitglieder Thailand, Indonesien, Malaysia...

This paper concentrates on three financial variables in promoting capital accumulation in the two groups of Asian economies. The empirical result shows that the ASEAN economies' financial performance is far less satisfactory than the four Asian NIEs. Considering the experience of the last two...