The profitability of banks depends upon a number of factors including existing business conditions, bank size, efficiency of operations, leverage (volume of deposits to equity capital), and the extent of competition among banks. Overall bank profitability and some determinants of profitability can be measured by using a number of operating ratios as rate of return on capital, rate of return on ...

This paper proposes a model in which bank runs are closely related to the state of the business cycle. The benchmark model shows that, in a market economy, there are welfare losses due to the existence of bank runs. Extensions of the model explore the welfare effects of various government policies. The results suggest that an interest-cap deposit insurance scheme is an efficient policy to preve...

2 Introduction 3 1. The Bank Lending Channel 4 1.1 Interest Rate and Credit Channels: a Brief Overview of Theoretical Concepts 4 1.2 Determinants of the Bank Lending Channel 6 2. A Short Description of Latvia's Banking Sector 7 2.1 Importance of the Banking Sector for Latvia's Financial System 7 2.2 Structure of Latvia's Banking Sector 8 3. Discovering Asymmetries in Bank Lending Behaviour 12 3...

We study the sensitivity of banks’ credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks’ financial condition before and during the financial crisis. Employing unique data on the geographical location of all bank branches in the UK, we connect firms’ access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core deposits) of all bank branches in t...

We study the sensitivity of banks’ credit supply to small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the UK to banks’ financial condition before and during the financial crisis. Employing unique data on the geographical location of all bank branches in the UK, we connect firms’ access to bank credit to the financial condition (i.e., bank health and the use of core deposits) of all bank branches in t...

This paper analyses competition and mergers among risk averse banks. We show that the correlation between the shocks to the demand for loans and the shocks to the supply of deposits induces a strategic interdependence between the two sides of the market. We characterise the role of diversification as a motive for bank mergers and analyse the consequences of mergers on loan and deposit rates. Wh...

This is an incomplete draft of a paper that will examine the competitive tension that arises when banks which compete for deposits provide “interconnecting” payment services to each other’s depositors. This draft presents a basic theoretical model and discusses some of the analysis that can be carried out and issues that can be addressed with the model. 1 This work was undertaken while the auth...

Introduction It is submitted that accepting Islamic Banking within the western regulatory framework has encountered many impediments. A conventional bank is an institution that holds a banking license issued by banks' regulatory authorities which authorizes the chartered institution to conduct fundamental banking services such as receiving deposits, making loans, providing and saving account se...