We exploit the introduction and removal of a nation-wide bank branch licensing rule which sought to increase and equalize bank branch presence across Indian states to estimate the e¤ect of rural bank openings on poverty. Between 1977 and 1990, to qualify for a license to open a branch in a census location which already had one or more bank branches an Indian bank had to open four branches in lo...

the purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between role clearness and occupational commitment of branch team managers in tehran agricultural bank. research questions were provided and developed considering role theory, existent resources toward role, present job description. the opinions of branch team managers in tehran agricultural bank according to demographic variabl...

SECTION 36 (c) (1) of the National Bank Act permits a national bank to establish branches within the city of the parent bank "if such establishment and operation are at the time expressly authorized to State banks by the law of the State."1 The quoted clause is also contained in section 36 (c) (2) which authorizes the establishment of national branches at any point in the state, expressly subje...

this paper proposes a suitable benchmark for inefficient commercial bank branches by using data envelopment analysis (dea). in order to render an inefficient bank branch efficient, it is necessary to decrease inputs and increase outputs. as there are priorities for decreasing some certain inputs and increasing some certain outputs over other inputs and outputs, respectively, it is necessary to ...

It is well known that a tree structure filter bank can be realized via a non-uniform filter bank, and perfect reconstruction is achieved if and only if each branch of the tree structure can provide perfect reconstruction. In this paper, the converse of this problem is studied. We show that a perfect reconstruction non-uniform filter bank with decimation ratio {2,4,4} can be realized via a tree ...

We exploit the introduction and removal of a nation-wide bank branch licensing rule which sought to increase and equalize bank branch presence across Indian states to estimate the e¤ect of rural bank openings on poverty. Between 1977 and 1990, to qualify for a license to open a branch in a census location which already had one or more bank branches an Indian bank had to open four branches in lo...

  This paper proposes a suitable benchmark for inefficient commercial bank branches by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). In order to render an inefficient bank branch efficient, it is necessary to decrease inputs and increase outputs. As there are priorities for decreasing some certain inputs and increasing some certain outputs over other inputs and outputs, respectively, it is necessary ...

Despite recent innovations that might have reduced banks’ reliance on brick-and-mortar branches for distributing retail financial services, the number of U.S. bank branches has continued to increase steadily over time. Further, an increasing percentage of these branches are held by banks with large branch networks. This paper assesses the implications of these developments by examining a series...

The extension of the war made it imperative to start a blood bank on modern lines for the processing of serum or plasma in India. The Government of India took a lead in the matter and early in January 1942, the Calcutta Blood Bank was established at the All-India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health in collaboration with the Bengal Branch of the Indian Red Cross Society. This was the first bl...

A widely publicized series of mergers has characterized the banking industry in recent years. Shareholder returns from these mergers have often been disappointing. This study finds delays in implementing potential operating savings and realizing benefits of scale economies may be one reason bank mergers have disappointing returns. We analyze a 200 branch network formed in a merger of four banks...