Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the link between, on one hand the interest margin of the bank, and the … determinants of the interest margin on the other. The basic importance of bank interest margin or spread (BIS), arises from the … study reveals proposed positive and significant correlation between bank interest margins and proxies of interest-rate risk …

financial distress. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that a larger number of banks increases the coordination and … bargaining costs during bankruptcy and decreases the liquidation value of the assets, and that the banks take that into …

financial distress. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that a larger number of banks increases the coordination and … bargaining costs during bankruptcy and decreases the liquidation value of the assets, and that the banks take that into …

of 3 per cent per month or 34 per cent per annum. The low income and high interest rate have led to high default rate … per cent of total entrepreneurs. Notwithstanding their low earnings, SMEs have to repay borrowed funds with high interest … among SMEs borrowers. The study showed that among SME entrepreneurs who repay credit on monthly basis there is a default …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether any deviations in South Asian banks' interest margins can … attributed to MC. Instead, only dominant South Asian banks with larger MSs are found to extract higher interest margins. Research … of South Asian domestic commercial banks. Second, due to the lack of product‐specific interest rates the authors have to …

on the current asset portion, that is, on interest receivable, and bad loans can be written off instantly from equity …

macroprudential authorities in their policy setting. This paper aims to assess the implications of high inflation and rising interest …