This book provides a compendium to the empirical work investigating the hypotheses
generated by recent banking theory. Such a compendium is overdue. Since the publication …

Making Finance Work for Africa takes a panoramic view of Africa's financial systems, both at
the large scale (" finance for growth") and the small scale (" finance for all"). Things are …

This paper investigates the effects of privatization for a panel of 189 firms from strategic
industries headquartered in 39 countries, and privatized between 1984 and 2002. Strategic …

This paper investigates how politics affects bank supervision by examining determinants of
bank failures in Japan during 1999–2002, a period during which bank regulators were …

This paper examines the relationship between recent changes in banking systems in
emerging market economies and the conduct of monetary policy at the operational level …

A number of the worlds' major airports have a high proportion of their capacity utilized by a
single airline, or alliance of airlines. At major US airports, for example, it is common for the …

In the context of constrained credit markets, the information view of related party transactions
(RPTs) is used to argue that such transactions are efficient, as they make the best use of …

The regulatory parameters enacted by various national authorities governing access to
airports by air carriers, amidst the background of privatization and rising congestion, have …

In recent years we have seen a number of changes in banking sector of India. Main
objective of banks is to create more value for customers; that is why most of the banks have …

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the relationship between banking origins
and the supply of credit in Ivory Coast. The analysis focuses on 14 banks composed of local …