This study underscores the strategic role – both political and economic – of banking sector reform in the overall pursuit of economic development and democratization. It compares trajectories of banking sector reform in Middle Eastern and African countries that have remained on the margins of the new global economy. A close look shows that their governments’ willingness to embrace reform has di...

With advent of new technologies, banking sector has undergone a great transformation. While this improved the customer's service experience, it also posed challenge for banks to differentiate their services from competitors. Now are finding hard make name them and create brand identity that distinguishes other players in market. As result, Indian trying enhance equity by all means possible. Thi...

Mergers and acquisitions have become increasingly significant in the modern business environment. Organizational a restructuring is common use of this method. The Indian government became first to introduce concept mergers country. There has been transition banking industry India during past two decades. financial services expanding at breathtaking rate. propelled new phase history India's sect...

This paper presents an empirical assessment of the degree of competition within the Jamaican banking sector during the period 1998 to 2009. We employ a dynamic version of the Panzar Rosse Model to estimate market power among the sample of banks that constitute over 90 percent of the banking market. Using the conventional statistical tests, we are unable to reject monopoly/perfect collusion for ...

In this paper, we measure systemic risk in the real estate sector based on contingent claims analysis, and then investigate its impact on banking return. Based on the data in China, we find that systemic risk in the real estate sector has a negative effect on banking return, but this effect is temporary; banking risk aversion and implicit interest expense have considerable impact on banking ret...