sources of efficiency and productivity of the foreign and domestic banks operating in the Malaysian banking sector. The … attributed to technological progress. The empirical findings suggest that both the domestic and foreign banks have exhibited …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both markets engaged heavily in mergers and acquisitions. We analyze how these … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change …

This paper examines the ramification of government capital injections into financially distressed banks during the 1997 … struggling "zombie" firms. The empirical results suggest that banks, post-injection, increased lending to both high …

productivity focused on conventional banks, but few have been done on Islamic banks. Therefore, the present study attempts to close … the gap in the literature by investigating the productivity of Islamic and conventional banks in the context of the Middle … East, Southeast Asia and South Asia regions. The sample is comprised of 385 banks (66 Islamic banks and 319 conventional …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both markets engaged heavily in mergers and acquisitions. We analyze how these … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change …

This paper examines the ramification of government capital injections into financially distressed banks during the 1997 … struggling "zombie" firms. The empirical results suggest that banks, post-injection, increased lending to both high …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state …-owned savings banks. Contemporaneously, banks in both markets engaged heavily in mergers and acquisitions. We analyze how these … change and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if …

, primarily by community banks. The survey evidence suggests that the use of credit scores in small business lending by community … banks is surprisingly widespread. Moreover, the scores employed tend to be the consumer credit scores of the small business …

acquiring banks value profitable, high-growth, and low-risk targets. We also find that the strength of bank regulation and … regimes and stronger deposit insurance schemes lower the takeover premiums paid by acquiring banks. This result, presumably in …