0377-2217/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2010.07.001 * Corresponding author at: Manchester Business Sc E-mail address: [email protected] (J.B. Yang The purpose of assessing past performances and setting future targets for an organisation such as a bank branch is to find where the branch stands in comparison to its peers within the bank branch network and how to ...

Banking is a competitive market since the industry deregulated. Consumers’ demand for convenience services led to an increase in the number of branches to serve a geographically dispersed customer base. Increasing the number of branches indiscriminately is not advisable since more branches increase the cost structure for the bank. Banking executives can evaluate the relative efficiency of branc...

We study the relationship between financial development and economic growth across 110 European regions from 1997 to 2018. single out two dimensions of in data capturing capillarity bank branches agglomeration industry at large their with regional growth. To establish a causal nexus, we employ two-ways fixed effects, instrumental variables, Arellano–Bond estimator. Our estimates indicate that w...

Between 1889 and 1928 a British bank served as state bank and bank of issue of Iran (usually known as Persia until the 1930s), and held a virtual monopoly of the modern banking sector of that country. The Imperial Bank of Persia was one of a large group of British "overseas banks" founded in the nineteenth century which pioneered banking and established branches all over Asia, Australasia, Afri...

Until the 1960s, when the advent of the Eurodollar market transformed the banking industry, British-owned banks were the predominant form of multinational bank. From the 1830s, British banks had established overseas branches, first in British colonial settlements in Australia and Canada, later in Asia, Latin America, Africa, and even California. By 1914 a group of around 30 banks owned and oper...