This study examines the productivity growth of the nationwide banks of China and a sample of city commercial, banks for the eleven years to 2007. Estimates of total factor productivity growth are constructed with appropriate confidence intervals, using a bootstrap method for the Malmquist index. The study adjusts for the quality of the output by accounting for the non-performing loans on the ba...

This research analyses the efficiency of China’s banks using the data envelopment analysis (DEA). The Chinese government began its reforms of the banking industry reform since 1978. Our data set contains twelve banks in China during the period of 1996 to 2003. All nominal variables are transformed into real variables in the 2003 prices. There are twelve banks including four state-owned speciali...

in the commercial banking activities, efficiency is an important issue for the bank managers, monitoring part and clients. this study has appraised the efficiency performance of the commercial banks in iran. the research method has been using windows data envelopment analysis with constant and variable returns to scale and input oriented model at the period of 1991-2006. the sample of study was...

The present study investigates morphological agreement in L2 Greek verbal and nominal domains by L1 Russian, Bulgarian, and Turkish speakers, with various features such as person, number, gender, and case involved, following Tsimpli et al. 2005. Russian, Bulgarian, and Greek are similar in terms of phi-feature agreement, but different from Turkish. A further distinction will be made for the L2 ...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, a comprehensive review is performed on the existing two-channel FIR filter banks as well as on the design techniques proposed in the literature for designing these banks. We concentrate on alias-free banks. These banks can be first classified into perfect-reconstruction and nearly perfect-reconstruction banks. The nearly perfectreconstruction filter ...

The purpose of this study was to translate in Greek the IBQ-G and investigate the validity and reliability of the Greek version. The Greek translation of IBQ-G has been given in a sample of employees in two public organizations at two different time points. A questionnaire which has been created for the purpose of this study also has been administered to assess similar influences behaviors. The...

The applications ORPHEUS and ARION have been presented to vast audiences during the International Fair of Thessaloniki between 8-17 September 2006. They were presented in international conferences, in nation-wide radio emissions, in newspaper and magazine articles. ORPHEUS has been supported by the “HERMES”1 project, while ARION is under the auspices of the SEEArchWeb2 project. ORPHEUS is an in...

This paper examines the causal e¤ects of bank size on banks’ survival, asset quality, and leverage. Two forces drive these e¤ects: increasing returns to scale derived from banks’expertise; and competition. The …rst enables bigger banks to survive competition better, have higher asset-quality, and be more leveraged. It drives banks into a race for expansion. This race toughens competition betwee...

This paper investigates whether Japanese banks followed herd behavior in lending in local financial markets during 1980—1999. By using loan data from Japanese banks, arranged by geographical area, we find leader-follower relationships between lending behavior of different types of banks. Specifically, herding is mostly caused by local banks. Local banks follow major banks in urban cities, while...