The new prudential regulation framework, established by the European Central Bank (ECB) after the financial crisis, encompasses supervisory procedures to measure and monitor banks business model, capital requirements, governance control and liquidity risk. However, research on financial...

This paper assesses and tests the response of banks operating in financial centers to the financial crisis by investigating the actual productivity change and its components — pure efficiency change, scale efficiency change and technological change (innovation). The heterogeneity in the...

This paper investigates whether and to what extent corporate governance mechanisms affect the efficiency of State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) operating in transition economies. Furthermore, it examines the relationship between corporate governance practice and its impact on both wholly state run...