This paper explores the linkage between strategic grouping and performance of the Indian banking sector. Strategic grouping and performance were identified using published financial information for all public sector banks. Grouping of Indian public sector banks following comparable financial strategy – with similar asset quality, operational efficiency and profitability – was operationalized us...

privatization is a process in which the ownership of governmental economic enterprises is transferred to private sector. according to other countries’ experiences and discussed economic theories over the past decades, privatization has improved the performance of companies and economic enterprises. in this study, financial ratios of companies were used as their performance indicators. this pape...

The Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) was set up in March 2011, and was tasked with the role of rewriting and harmonising financial sector legislations. It came out with a report (FSLRC report) and the draft Indian Financial Code (IFC) in March 2013. Prior to making its final recommendations, FSLRC had issued an approach paper in October 2012, to which Consumer Unity & Tru...

OECD sector 24030 Financial institutions of the formal financial sector BMZ project ID 1999 65 138 Project-executing agency Banco de la República Oriental del Uruguay (BROU) Consultant not applicable Year of ex-post evaluation 2006 Project appraisal (planned) Ex-post evaluation (actual) Start of implementation 01/2001 01/2001 Period of implementation no information available 33 months Investmen...

This paper presents a critical analysis of the economic impacts of past, ongoing, and planned research of BFRL’s construction systems integration and automation technologies (CONSIAT) program. The CONSIAT program is an interdisciplinary research effort within BFRL to develop key enabling technologies, standard communication protocols, and advanced measurement technologies needed to facilitate t...

This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the stock and credit markets are still underdeveloped in these economies, and that their contribution to ec...

Utilizing panel data methods and applying Granger causality tests within a framework of a panel cointegration and error correction model, this paper investigates the relationship between financial development and economic growth for 14 Latin American countries from 1978 to 2011. The empirical results show that when banking sector development indicators are used as proxies for financial developm...

Reversal of financial market integration in Europe during the global financial crisis requires tools to measure and monitor banking sector stability. Banking sectors in Europe, especially in Central and Eastern countries, are characterized by a significant share of foreign capital and height level of concentration. This phenomenon may enhance the financial institutions to compete and probably t...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the extent to which the presence of positive externalities associated with public sector financial assistance to individual firms distorts standard methodologies designed to estimate the level of additionality. These positive externalities may include collaboration and international networking opportunities, information transfer, the freeing up of internal...