Hong Kong’s Banking Industry Facing Keen Competition

Competition in China’s Domestic Banking Industry

Once China has been accepted into the World Trade Organization, all the business and geographical limitations that previously restricted the activities of foreign banks in China will be removed gradually. China is expected to allow foreign banks to conduct foreign currency business for all foreign customers immediately, to allow them to conduct foreign currency business involving Chinese client...

Bank Competition and Risk-taking in the Iranian Banking Industry

Abstract: The banking industry is one of the main sectors of the economy of any country, that its health is a necessary condition to play a positive role in the economic development of that country. The health of the banking system is assessed by the financial stability criterion, which is evaluated by various risk-taking indexes. On the other hand, the banks risk-taking is affected by various...

Industry toxicologists keen on reducing animal use.

Foreign Competition and Banking Industry Dynamics: An Application to Mexico

We develop a simple general equilibrium framework to study the effects of global competition on banking industry dynamics and welfare. We apply the framework to the Mexican banking industry, which underwent a major structural change in the 1990s as a consequence of both government policy and external shocks. Given high concentration in the Mexican banking industry, domestic and foreign banks ac...

Study the Relationship between Competition and cost Efficiency in Iran’s Banking Industry

An important factor affecting economic growth is the creation of an efficient financial system for financing high value-added activities. Accordingly, this study examined the relationship between cost efficiency and competition in Iran’s banking industry using data of 18 state-owned and private banks over the period of 2006-2015. To do so, we used trans-log cost function to measure the cost eff...