...Rodrigo de Oliveira Leite; Layla Mendes; Icaro Nascimento Purpose Our paper explores the political determinants of bank cash holdings. We selected as our sample banks from G7 (to proxy developed economies) and BRICS (to proxy emerging markets). Design/methodology/approach We collected data...

...Fazıl Gökgöz; Engin Yalçın; Noor Ayoob Salahaldeen Purpose The banking industry, which is one of the most significant industries when taking into account both deposit sizes and employment statistics in Turkey, is one of the country's primary economic drivers. In this regard, it is highly important...

...Saibal Ghosh Purpose Although several microeconomic and macroeconomic factors driving banks' credit quality have been well-studied in the literature, one aspect which appears to have received limited attention is bankruptcy reforms. To address this issue, the author exploits data on Middle East...

...Alper Kirik; Tunc Oygur; Yaman Omer Erzurumlu Purpose This study aims to attempt to understand the joint co-movement of bank deposit rate and its main underlying determinants (foreign exchange rate (FX) rate, cross-currency swap rate and implied forward rate). The authors also compare time...

.... Design/methodology/approach – In framing the financial dimension in a more concrete and tractable manner, the author examines the concerns of how domestic financial initial dynamics of depth (economic and financial systems), efficiency (banking and financial systems), activity (banking and financial...

...Fadzlan Sufian; Muzafar Shah Habibullah Purpose The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of consolidation on Malaysian banking sector's market structure and competition. Design/methodology/approach The paper employs the Panzar‐Rosse (P‐R) method to compute the H‐statistics...

...&BOVESPA) are used for the period July 1999‐January 2009. Two sub‐periods are also considered: the “maturation period” – the first phase of the effects caused by an increase in central bank transparency; and the “wisdom period” – the second phase in the financial market's perception regarding...

...Niloy Bose; Salvatore Capasso; Martin Andreas Wurm Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between banking development and the size of shadow economies by employing data on 137 countries over the period from 1995 to 2007. Both cross‐sectional and panel analysis suggest...

...Lakshmi Kumar; D. Malathy; L.S. Ganesh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand technology diffusion in the banking sector in India by analyzing ATM (automatic teller machine) technology and its replacement of the teller (labor). ATMs are fast emerging as an important IT investment...

... period of financial repression or financial underdevelopment in the region. It however finds strong complementarity features in interaction of both finance and HC on growth. Research limitations/implications The analysis in the paper is confined to banking development indicators, due to inadequate...

...Saeed Al‐Muharrami Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: to investigate the market structure of Saudi Arabia banking industry; and to evaluate the monopoly power of banks during the years 1993‐2006. Design/methodology/approach The paper is examining the market structure using the most...

.... Findings The empirical evidence suggests that almost all of the central banks that have pursued this strategy have been unsuccessful at controlling inflation, with the results indicating that the adoption of an inflation‐targeting regime has had the perverse effect on inflation for almost every country...

...Roger J. Sandilands Discusses, in a speech given by Lauchlin Currie at the Chicago Forum of the American Institute of Banking on February 24, 1938, behavior of deposits from the viewpoint of an individual banker. Looks at some of the functions and peculiar characteristics of banking which...

...Roger J. Sandilands The author, Lauchlin Currie, suggests, in a memorandum written in February 1937, that there should be banking legislation with reference to foreign capital inflows. Gives a series of suggestions as to what might be needed. © Company 2004 Capital input Economics...

...Roger J. Sandilands Presents Chapter I of Laughlin Currie's PhD thesis in which he discusses the history of bank assets and banking theory. strongly inclined to favor government securities, although fully conscious of the losses they may occasionally produce [10] . It cannot be said...

...Roger J. Sandilands Presents chapter IX of Lauchlin Currie's PhD thesis which discusses bank assets and the business cycle. © Company 2004 Banking Assets management Business cycles the results are so uniform and so striking as to leave little doubt that the secular trend...

... in the physical production of goods and services. The elements in the problem, then, are as follows: Economics Banking History United States of America In the past three years the volume of circulating deposits (adjusted demand deposits) plus currency outside banks has expanded by over $11...

...Roger J. Sandilands Presents a speech delivered by Lauchlin Currie in April 12, 1935 in Philadelphia on the objectives of the Banking Bill of 1935 © Company 2004 Economics Banking History United States of America When I received an invitation to discuss the philosophy underlying...

...Roger J. Sandilands Presents Lauchlin Currie' views on the monetary aspects of the excess reserves problem which he gave at a board meeting on May 18, 1936. © Company 2004 Economics Banking History United States of America Excess reserves constitute a problem because they may...

...Roger J. Sandilands Presents a memorandum written by Lauchlin Currie and Martin Krost in which they attempt to state and clarify the issues involved in, and to present estimates of the magnitude of Federal income‐increasing expenditures. © Company 2004 Economics Banking History United...