Introduction Until quite recently, industrial-organization economists, bank regulators, and the Justice Department shared the view that market structure, that is, the number and size distribution of competitors in a market, is the primary determinant of the conduct and performance of banks operating in that market. More particularly, the traditional structuralist view is that the greater the sh...

A potential objective of every financial organization is to retain existing customers and attain new prospective customers for long-term. The economic behaviour of customer and the nature of the organization are controlled by a prescribed form called Know Your Customer (KYC) in manual banking. Depositor customers in some sectors (business of Jewellery/Gold, Arms, Money exchanger etc) are with h...

In Bangladesh, use of modern contraceptive methods has increased dramatically in the last decade. However, the level of use has not been the same between rural clusters. This dissertation investigates the plausible reasons for areal variations in use of modern contraception in rural Bangladesh. This study randomly selects sixteen rural clusters as sub-samples from the 1991 Contraceptive Prevale...

We develop a dynamic multi-agent model of an interbank payment system where banks choose their level of available funds on the basis of private payoff maximisation. The model consists of the repetition of a simultaneous move stage game with incomplete information, incomplete monitoring, and stochastic payoffs. Adaptation takes place with Bayesian updating, with banks maximizing immediate payoff...

According to the National Food Policy of Bangladesh, urban slum dwellers are most vulnerable group ensure food security. Their condition has not been materially improved over three decades. In our study, we present current insecurity scenario in slums Dhaka city using recent ‘Bangladesh – Urban Informal Settlements Baseline Survey’ dataset World Bank. Afterwards, analyse determinants household ...