The authors formulate and test hypotheses about the role of bank ownership types-foreign, state-owned, and private … hypotheses with regard to foreign banks. These banks tend to serve as the main bank for transparent firms, and firms with foreign … across bank ownership types. The data are also consistent with the hypothesis that firms with state-owned main banks are …

obtain measures of bank level productivity by employing the techniques due to Levinsohn and Petrin (2003). They then relate … such measures to a set of bank characteristics. Their main results indicate that state-owned banks are less productive than …

Just before the 2008-09 global financial crisis, policymakers were concerned about the rapid growth of bank credit …, particularly in emerging Europe. Significant liquidity support provided by the European Central Bank was a "game changer," at least …, speed, and impact of European bank deleveraging remain highly dependent on the evolution of economic growth and market …

"This is a study of the Royal Bank of Canada's Monthly Letter, which was initially created in 1920 as a traditional …

indicators of commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide … stressing the importance of some bank-specific variables, the censored Tobit analysis suggests that: 1) Foreign ownership with … controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhance commercial bank efficiency. 2) The effects of prudential tightening on the …