Recently added articles from Banks and Bank Systems:

FINANCIAL SERVICES PRIVATISATION IN THE CEECs - AN OVERVIEW

Apr 01, 2007; Consiglio, J A ... Abstract Financial services privatization in the Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) is an account of significant differences in strategy processes and implementation, and of strongly asymmetric evolution paces of bank and economic restructuring. The inherited background ...

NEW CAPITAL RULES ACCORDING TO BASEL II

Apr 01, 2007; Valová, Ivana ... Abstract The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (known as "the Basel Committee") was established by the central-bank Governors of the group often countries at the end of 1974. In 1988 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision decided to introduce a capital measurement system for a ...

PRIVATE EQUITY INVESTMENTS IN THE BANKING INDUSTRY - THE CASE OF LONE STAR AND KOREA EXCHANGE BANK

Apr 01, 2007; Menke, Matthias; Schiereck, Dirk ... Abstract This paper examines success factors for the value creation of a private equity fund investing in a bank - based on Lone Star's acquisition of Korea Exchange Bank in 2003. Despite the value destruction mergers and acquisitions in the banking industry have shown, Lone Star turned ...

AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF BANK RISK-TAKING IN EMERGING MARKETS WITHIN A PROSPECT THEORY FRAMEWORK. A NOTE1

Apr 01, 2007; Godlewski, Christophe J ... Abstract The purpose of this note is to investigate the validity of some behavioral conjectures as alternative explanations of bank risk-taking behavior. We especially focus on the different valuation of gains and losses relative to a reference point and the changing attitude toward risk ...

FINANCIAL LIBERALIZATION AND CURRENCY CRISES: THE CASE OF TURKEY

Apr 01, 2007; Feridun, Mete ... Abstract This article aims at identifying the determinants of currency crises in Turkey in the period of 1980:01-2006:06. A broad set of explanatory variables was tested through the signals approach and bivariate and multivariate logit regressions. The same procedure is then repeated for ...

INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AS A CREDIT DRIVER IN BANKING SECTOR: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY WITH WAVELETS

Apr 01, 2007; Ozun, Alper; Cifter, Atilla ... Abstract This paper examines the timescale effects of industrial production on credits volume at banks. By using industrial production in Turkey and credit volumes of Turkish banks from 3/1992-12/2006, this study employs wavelet filters to estimate multi-scale causality for scaled time ...