This paper employ hand-collected data concerning foreign strategic investment and corporate governance in the Chinese banking sector, we examine whether foreign strategic investment improve the corporate governance of Chinese banks and whether corporate governance improve performance of Chinese banks. We found that foreign strategic investment increases the binding force for top three sharehold...

Iran's banking industry has faced a wide range of changes during recent years and its banks' performance has been affected by these changes. On the one hand, the entry of private banks to the industry has made various changes in the industry's concentration and the market share of banks, on the other hand, banking technologies and strengthened competitive environment have led banks to increase ...

Corporate governance of banks is one of the most important structures required by banks to maintain the health and stability of banks, which can play an important role in managing banks' risk. This paper examines the effect of corporate governance on liquidity risk management, credit risk management, and total bank risk management. We used board structure effectiveness, transparency, and respon...

An inverted U-shaped relationship is thought to exist between the number of firms entrenched in a market and the rate of new entrants. This study examined early and late entry by foreign and U.S. banks into the California market following a deregulation in the banking industry in the early 1980s. The study was designed to elucidate the competitive interactions between foreign and domestic banks...

this study examines technical efficiency in iran's banking system using unbalanced panel data for 17 state and private banks during the 1997-2009 period. therefore, technical efficiency of banks was measured through estimating a translog cost function in the form of a panel sfa error compound model. then, the effect of underlying factors including both individual and structural (ownership/...

The study deals with the most significant crisis in history of Russian banking, which occurred when 49 municipal banks and 13 mutual credit societies went bankrupt from 1882–1889. Historians have explained causes various ways; however, these explanations are not fully verifiable due to lack consolidated quantitative data on operations for societies. Therefore, a new set institutions was compose...

Article history: Received 19 May 2006 Received in revised form24April 2007 Accepted 26 April 2007 Available online 4 June 2007 Agricultural landscapes can provide many valuable ecosystem services, but many are externalities from the perspective of farmers and so tend to be under-produced. This paper examines an effort to make direct payments for ecosystem services (PES) in an agricultural lands...

This paper compares the performance of regional banks and national banks in Korea for the period of 19922004 by examining how the profitability of these two groups differs, identifying major determinants of profitability for each group, and explaining their similarities and differences. Two competing hypotheses, the market power hypothesis and the efficient structure hypothesis, are tested in a...

We study the effects of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Term Auction Facility (TAF) on globally active banks. We exploit a unique dataset with information on all foreign activities of German banks’ affiliates both, inand outside the US. All German parent banks with US affiliates tapped TAF liquidity, which mitigates self-selection concerns. This setting allows testing whether foreign affiliate activ...