The aim of this paper is to identify which factors explain why some countries are more prone to enjoy long durations of stability, while others experience crises in shorter intervals. To this end, we analyze the duration of stability periods between currency, debt, and banking crises from 1980 to 2008. We find that durations of tranquility between currency and debt crises are bimodally distribu...

The article investigates the role of bank capital in financing reproduction processes and increase of economic growth indicators, considers the essence of the concept of “bank capitalization”, determines the structure and main sources of bank capital increase. Taking into account the fact that Ukraine and Poland have similar vectors of economic development, the current practices of increasing t...

Non-performing assets (NPAs) have long been one of the most visible and frightening issues that shaken whole banking industry around world. As a result, study's primary goal is to elucidate facts surrounding NPAs, which harmed Indian industry's soundness, profitability, performance between 1998–1999 2019–2020. The future trends NPAs across ownership types sectoral groups were also explored. est...

This study evaluated the effect of bank consolidation on economic growth of Nigeria between the periods of 2006-2015. Secondary data were sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin and the NDIC Annual Reports between the period of 2006 and 2015. Data was analyzed using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) multiple regression technique with the aid of the SPSS statistical software ...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study aims to identify which factors explain why some countries enjoy long durations of stability, while others experience crises in shorter intervals. We analyze the duration of stability periods between currency, debt, and banking crises by employing an innovative econometric strategy, the Finite Mixture Model (FMM). Real and financial variables show high predictive...

The successful implementation of the next generation of spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) will, in part, depend on the ability of SDI program coordinators to comprehend and report on the success or failure levels of the previous generations of SDIs. This is important from both a funding and an effectiveness perspective. From an effectiveness point of view, the performance of a system can only...

<p>The coronavirus pandemic shock has attenuated economic activity decline in various sectors of the economy across globe. Financial service providers such as; banks, insurance firms and Sacco societies among others have been impacted by as livelihoods people disrupted first spreading virus leading to job losses well weak demand supply forces market. The unique model societies’ business p...

An inclusive merger mechanism became one option for the Nigerian banking industry in response to a Central Bank of Nigeria’s policy to increase the minimum paid-up share capital requirement of Nigerian banks from N2 billion to N25 billion in July 2004, with December 31, 2005 as deadline. More than half of the 89 banks in Nigeria as at July 2004 were engaged in one form of merger. The study obje...