Commercial Banking Structure, Regulation, and Performance: An International Comparison

Banking Sector Reforms and Commercial Bank Performance in China

The Chinese banking sector has gone through a consistent process of the reform which includes liberalization of the business to foreign banks, privatization and listing bank shares, allowing diversifications into intermediary business beyond the traditional deposit and loan activities. In the mean time, the changing structures of the banking sector and the favourable economic condition in the r...

U.S. health expenditure performance: An international comparison and data update

In this article, the authors present the most recently available data on the health care financing and delivery systems of the 24 industrialized member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). U.S. health expenditure performance is compared with the performance of other OECD countries. Thirty-six tables of data from 1960-90 are presented on health expenditu...

Size, productivity, and international banking

Heterogeneity in size and productivity is central to models that explain which manufacturing firms export. This study presents descriptive evidence on similar heterogeneity among international banks as financial services providers. A novel and detailed bank-level data set reveals the volume and mode of international activities for all German banks. Only a few, large banks have a commercial pres...

An Historical Appraisal of Information Technology in Commercial Banking

b s t r a c t The central role of information processing in banking leads to an expectation that banking and finance companies will be strongly affected by technological innovation in general and applications of information and communications technologies (IT) in particular. This research reviews those effects on banking organizations with reference to front-office or external changes (product ...

An Institutional Approach to the Law of Commercial Banking