Banking Sector Development and Household Saving in Emerging Eastern Europe

Banking sector: emerging challenges and opportunities

Banking all over the world is moving in a new direction, as the memories of global financial crisis are gradually fading. In India, a new phase of the banking expansion is on the anvil and the reserve Bank of India has already announced license for the setting up of new banks, with many more likely to come in the near future. But the expansion of banking network is also fraught with risks as it...

Measuring banking sector development

Conventional measures of banking sector The traditional indicators utilized for assessing the size, depth and development of a country’s banking (financial) sector are: • The ratio of M2 to GDP • The ratio of private credit to GDP. In particular, both these measures have been used to show the causal effects of financial development on economic growth. However, both measures have some limitation...

Emerging Issues in Banking and Financial Sector in India

I. PREREFORM FINANCIAL SYSTEM IN INDIA AND RATIONALE FOR REFORMS The Indian financial sector today is significantly different from what it used to be a few decades back, in the 1970s and 1980s. The Indian financial system of the pre-reform period essentially catered to the needs of planned development in a mixed-economy framework where the Government sector had a predominant role in economic ac...

Banking Sector Policies and Financial Development: The Case of Iran

In this paper we empirically examine the effect of various banking policies on financial sector development. To this end, an econometric model in the context of Co-integrated VAR is employed. The results show that financial liberalization and reforms have a significant and positive effect on the banking sector development while inflation rate has a negative effect. Furthermore, the high GDP...

Banking Sector Development in the Czech Republic