The determinants of commercial banking profitability in low-, middle-, and high-income countries

Using a broad bank-level dataset and the GMM estimator technique described by Arellano and Bover (1995), this paper analyses how bank-specific characteristics, macroeconomic variables, and industry-specific factors affect the profitability of 10,165 commercial banks across 118 countries over the period from 1998 to 2012. Grouping the countries according to three income levels, we show that the determinants of bank profitability included in our model can explain existing profitability differences among commercial banks in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. The profitability determinants vary quite widely across the different levels of income in terms of significance, sign and size of the effect. The level of income has thus an important impact on the determinants of bank profitability.     

银行业务地域特征和银行机构集聚

由于交通成本和信息成本的存在,银行业务呈现出一定的地域特征。不同的地域特征使得各个地区适合集聚的银行业务也存在差异。地方政府应该根据经济发展水平、金融业务资源禀赋、地理环境和金融生态环境等因素的实际情况,选择合适的政策措施,促进银行业务和银行机构的集聚。     

基于公允价值计量的银行监管改革

在全球性金融监管改革进程中,美国次贷危机带来的影响是重大而深远的,人们重新从不同角度审视过去的监管制度。本文正是从在此次危机中受到广泛争议的公允价值计量角度出发,审视公允价值计量的性质与特征,审视其与银行监管的适应性关系。并基于其本质发现公允价值计量在银行监管体系中的不足和缺陷,进而寻找发挥其效力、规避其不足的监管措施。     

长三角地区银行中介发展：特征与态势

银行中介在长三角地区金融体系中居主导地位,其发展规模总的来看领先于全国其他地区,但在区域内也呈现出较严重的非平衡性。长三角地区银行业市场结构与全国其他地区相比并不存在明显差异,但其信贷配置市场化程度居于全国前列。部分得益于区域良好的法治水平,长三角地区银行中介具有较高的效率。     

构建上海银行业优质服务体系的对策措施

银行业的竞争在某种意义上来讲就是服务的竞争。本文针对上海银行业服务存在问题,分析了构建上海银行业优质服务体系的方向与突破口,并提出构建上海银行业优质服务体系的对策措施。     

商业银行资本金补充机制研究

本文在<巴塞尔协议Ⅲ>要求的基础上,分析了我国各类商业银行所面临的资本金和资本结构约束.研究表明,中国银行业面临的资本约束同欧美银行业存在明显差异,我国商业银行应在遵守新资本协议的基础上丰富核心资本,规范利用附属资本,优化资本金结构.     

Which firms engage small, foreign, or state banks? And who goes Islamic? Evidence from Turkey

We study a representative dataset from Turkey that identifies firm–bank connections. Banks in Turkey differ not only in size and nationality, but also in ownership and orientation (non-Islamic versus Islamic)—resulting in at least six distinct bank types. We estimate a multinomial logit of the choice by the firm of bank type. We document a strong correspondence between bank type and firm characteristics that is not always the same as has been documented so far for US datasets. For example, small firms engage large rather than small banks. Young, large, multiple-bank, and industry-diversified firms, that are located in or close to Istanbul, team up with foreign banks. Islamic banks mainly deal with young, multiple-bank, industry-focused and transparent firms.     

The effect of banking crisis on bank-dependent borrowers

We provide causal evidence that adverse capital shocks to banks affect their borrowers’ performance negatively. We use an exogenous shock to the U.S. banking system during the Russian crisis of Fall 1998 to separate the effect of borrowers’ demand of credit from the supply of credit by the banks. Firms that primarily relied on banks for capital suffered larger valuation losses during this period and subsequently experienced a higher decline in their capital expenditure and profitability as compared to firms that had access to the public-debt market. Consistent with an adverse shock to the supply of credit, crisis-affected banks decreased the quantity of their lending and increased loan interest rates in the post-crisis period significantly more than the unaffected banks. Our results suggest that the global integration of the financial sector can contribute to the propagation of financial shocks from one economy to another through the banking channel.     

网银业务纠纷的防范与解决

随着信息技术的进步和互联网的普及,我国网上银行业务得以快速发展.在充分肯定网银业务优越性的同时,也应该看到,由于我国网银业务还处于发展阶段,运行中出现了诸多的问题,甚至损害了客户的利益,以致客户与银行之间出现了不少的纠纷,一定程度上影响到了社会公众的认可度,制约了网银业务的健康发展.该文主要是从研究和解决这些纠纷入手,...     

如何看待银行业利润大幅增长问题

今年以来,银行业利润大幅增长问题引起了社会各界高度关注。本文的分析表明,银行业利润的大幅增长主要归因于实体经济平稳较快增长、现行金融保护制度、银行中间业务快速发展、银行业改革红利和市场环境变迁等,是各种内外部、主客观因素共同作用的结果。银行业良好的经营绩效对于银行、金融体系乃至国民经济的健康平稳发展具有重要意义。受制于多方面因素,当前银行业的高盈利不具备可持续性,可采取有关改革措施保持银行业利润合理、平稳增长。