The article investigates the Swedish retail banks’ application of price bundling in order to attract new customers, students. This is done through a customer survey about students’ preferences concerning retail banking services, their price sensitiveness and banking behaviour. The conjoint analysis results showed that the students had relatively heterogeneous preferences, and four distinguishin...

The recent sovereign debt crisis raises a debate on whether the cancelation of sovereign debt is compatible with democracy. Scholars opposed to the cancelation of sovereign debt refer to the Glorious Revolution of 1688, in which the British government began to make the people as a whole liable for the obligations incurred by their government. These scholars argue that this commitment formed the...

It is widely accepted that neurobiological abnormalities underlie the symptoms of psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia and unipolar or bipolar affective disorders. New molecular methods, computer-assisted quantification techniques and neurobiological investigation methods that can be applied to the human brain are all used in post-mortem investigations of psychiatric disorders. The follo...

Bank runs in the literature take the form of withdrawals of demand deposits payable in real goods, which deplete a …xed reserve of goods in the banking system. That framework describes traditional bank runs based on currency withdrawals as occurred historically in the U.S. and more recently in developing countries. However, in a modern banking system, large withdrawals typically take the form o...

the iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade; privatization, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (it). this paper investigates the competitive condition of the iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the h-statistic proposed by panzar and rosse. the properties of this non-structural methodology make it...

Electronic banking has become one of the most important and modern applications that has witnessed a substantial expansion during the last years. This study examines the impact of electronic banking on the Jordanian banks' performance. Empirical analysis has been conducted on a panel data of 15 Jordanian banks for the period 2000-2010. Accounting data were used to measure the banks' performance...

Brief Description. This short paper highlights the interaction between security and usability in e-banking security and presents objectives and difficulties for studies in this field. E-Banking has undoubtedly become a key element in every modern bank's service portfolio during the last two decades. With its initial focus primarily on transactions, e-banking has now progressed towards an advanc...

An upgrade of the lending sector of Ghana requires modern and improved met of banking. Securitization is one of the modern processes used to leverage on lending in many banking sectors. The aim of the study was to assess the readiness and preparedness of the banking industry of Ghana towards the adoption of securitization. The study involved a survey and a quantitative research design in which ...

The Iranian banking sector has undergone huge and substantial reform in the last decade; privatization, establishment of private banks and development of modern technologies (IT). This paper investigates the competitive condition of the Iranian banking industry over the period 2005-2010 using the H-statistic proposed by Panzar and Rosse. The properties of this non-structural methodology make it...