Pricing,operating efficiency,and profitability among large commercial banks

This study uses statistical cost accounting techniques to examine the relationship between bank profitability and two dimensions of operating performance — pricing and operating efficiency. The traditional statistical cost accounting model, which relates a firm's income to its asset and liability mix, is expanded to account for differences in market structure, regional demand and supply conditions, and macroeconomics factors. The study focuses on large (above $500 million in domestic deposits) banks, comparing a sample of relatively profitable banks against a matched group of much less profitable banks over the period 1970–1977. After allowing for regional supply and demand factors, the high and low-profit banks are estimated to earn equal market rates of return on individual assets and liabilities. There is virtually no evidence that differential prices are an important discriminator between the two bank groups. Some evidence is found that the high-earnings banks experience lower operating costs on some liabilities, but the opposite is true with respect to selected asset items. After taxes are taken into account, however, any such cost differentials virtually disappear. Overall, there is no compelling evidence that high-profit banks are characterized by greater operating efficiency than their low-earnings counterparts. This finding is consistent with the view that over time, and especially among relatively large banks, information flows and competitive pressures act to reduce operating efficiency differences that may appear in the short run.     

The dynamics of US bank profitability

We examine the determinants of profitability for a large sample of US banks over the period 1984–2010. Specifically, we assess the extent to which short-run profits persist, and whether such persistence is affected by changes in regulation and the recent financial crisis. Our findings suggest that the competitive process reduces positions of abnormal profitability, albeit this is not immediate. There is also evidence that changes in regulation enacted during the 1990s affected both the level and persistence of bank profitability. The financial crisis of 2007–2010 appears to have resulted in an increase in the persistence of bank profitability.     

数据仓库与商业银行战略管理

我国商业银行在股改上市后越来越重视战略管理。但是,从整体上看,在战略制定、战略执行、战略评估等方面,由于缺乏量化数据支持,商业银行决策层定性的主观判断较多,只有构建企业级的数据仓库平台方能解决这个问题。由此,数据仓库技术在我国商业银行战略管理领域得到了广泛的应用,     

Market discipline and bank efficiency

This paper investigates whether depositors and market investors exert disciplinary pressure on bank management in terms of efficiency improvement. We find that banks with more outstanding deposits are more cost-efficient, although little effect is found with respect to profit efficiency. This implies that depositors, the primary providers of funds to banks, likely play an important role in disciplining bank management, at least in terms of enforcing efficient use of inputs. Market discipline has garnered increasing attention as a mechanism to ensure bank soundness. Our results imply that depositors, the largest creditors to banks, may be of primary importance in this mechanism.     

地理信息系统在商业银行中的应用

进入信息时代,不论从政府、企业还是个人的角度,信息对决策的基础作用都是至关重要的。但是,信息的获取途径复杂多变、获取成本千差万别,使得信息使用者周围往往充斥着大量非标准化信息。这就需要进一步重视信息管理,建立多种渠道完善信息的系统化、标准化建设。作为一种多维的管理信息处理系统,地理信息系统（CIS）是将部分非标准化信息转化为标准化信息的有效手段。     

新兴商业银行的信息化策略

金融信息化已经成为当前商业银行进行金融创新、参与竞争、提高核心竞争力的战略性和基础性工作，金融信息化的发展，为改善银行对客户的服务、支持业务创新、提高服务质量和管理与决策水平、降低经营成本、控制经营风险，以及增强银行的竞争能力提供了重要基础和保障。进入21世纪以来，     

互联网金融崛起与商业银行转型研究

随着互联网对人类社会的全面渗透和互联网技术的革新,互联网金融迅速崛起,以其成本、效率、信息和体验上的巨大优势,全面冲击着银行业金融中介的主体地位,同时也带来了银行经营转型的重要战略契机。在互联网金融时代,银行业如何应对挑战、把握机遇,成为业界关注的重大课题。     

现代商业银行与全面成本管理

一、全面成本管理的内涵 全面成本管理是当代成本管理理论的新发展,是建立在作业链、价值链原理基础上的新型成本理论与成本制度.全面成本管理制度通过对作业链的分析(又称业务流程分析)、分类和筛选,揭示作业链的本质和价值链的内涵,通过优化、再造作业链和价值链,提高企业作业增值活动的成本整合效应.全面成本管理有三大理论基石:第一层是当代亚哲学理论基础--系统论、控制论和信息论;第二层是现代管理会计的基本原理--标准会计、目标会计、责任会计、作业会计和作业成本制度;第三层是微观经济学的基本方法--技术经济学、价值工程学、行为经济学.全面成本管理的核心是作业成本制度和作业管理.     

Factors influencing the profitability of domestic and foreign commercial banks in the European Union

Using bank level data this paper examines how bank's specific characteristics and the overall banking environment affect the profitability of commercial domestic and foreign banks operating in the 15 EU countries over the period 1995–2001. The results indicate that profitability of both domestic and foreign banks is affected not only by bank's specific characteristics but also by financial market structure and macroeconomic conditions. All the variables, with the exception of concentration in the case of domestic banks profits, are significant although their impact and relation with profits is not always the same for domestic and foreign banks.     

商业银行的内部审计与风险控制

加强商业银行内部审计,有效控制风险,既是当前国有商业银行的重要任务,也是维护国家金融秩序稳定和防范金融风险的重要战略决策。因此,探索商业银行内部审计存在的问题和根源并加以解决,以建立有效的内部审计机制,防范经营风险,正确引导商业银行内部管理制度的改革,已成为一项重要的现实课题。商业银行内部审计的功能商业银行内部审计是商业银行监控系统的重要组成部分。它通过采用系统、严谨的方法,独立地、客观公正地对商业银行的内部活动和监控系统进行审查,并提出指导性建议。有效的商业银行内部审计有助于提高商业银行内部控制与监管工…     

商业银行数据仓库建设及数据服务价值

随着信息化的飞速发展,服务行业,特别是金融业在客户需求与市场环境的共同作用下,信息支撑服务逐步彰显其强大的生命力和不可替代性。如何从纷繁复杂的银行运营、渠道等交易系统中将松散部署的基础数据集中加工、清洗、转换、存储,并建立逻辑关系索引,驱动数据转化为管理信息,使其在银行业务服务、管理决策中发挥关键作用？中国光大银行（以下简称“光大银行”）近年来在“以客户为中心、以服务为导向”的发展战略背景下,     

加强构建商行内部控制机制

银行，曾经是富人的保险箱。高高的围墙，威严的保安，一道又一道的防盗门。严密而繁琐的各项制度，似乎把所有风险都挡在了银行之外。但是在1995年2月，具有二百三十多年历史的被誉为世界首家“商业银行”的英国巴林银行宣布倒闭。这是一家以保守经营著称的英国老牌银行。它的倒闭令多少入毕生的积蓄灰飞烟灭。同时也再一次将银行面临的巨大风险展现在世人面前。[编者按]     

谈银行监管的边界和效率

全球银行监管是一个不断调适监管边界并着力提高监管效率的优化过程,我国应注重分析银行监管边界与效率问题,可以尝试采用成本有效性的分析方法,并重新审视监管中的一些关系,尽快创造条件实现从规制监管向原则导向监管的转变,以提高监管的有效性,引领银行业向前健康发展。     

现代商业银行财务管理信息系统的分析与构建

随着信息技术的不断发展,面对全球金融业的激烈竞争,国际先进银行都加快了信息化建设的步伐。先进的财务管理信息系统作为现代商业银行管理信息化建设的重要组成部分,不仅有助于银行提高运营效率、降低运营成本,而且对于银行提高管理水平、加强金融风险防范具有重要作用。     

谏言商业银行风险管理

由于合规风险管理机制缺失，商业银行无法通过政策和程序的持续修订去传承许多有益的风险管理经验，制约了商业银行风险管理水平的进一步提升。     

互联网金融发展与商业银行应对策略

目前,以第三方支付、P2P网贷平台、互联网理财和电商金融为代表的互联网金融发展方兴未艾,呈现巨大的发展活力。文章分类介绍了这些互联网金融业态的发展现状,分析了互联网金融快速发展给商业银行带来的有利和不利影响,指出商业银行应顺应互联网金融的发展趋势,从自身的比较优势及业务特点出发,积极涉足互联网金融业务,实现后发优势。     

银行控股模式下银行与信托公司的战略协同

商业银行经营信托业务是国际主流模式,在银行控股模式下银行与信托公司的协同效应显著增强。信托公司自身业务创新发展,以及加强与银行及其子公司的整合和协调是实现战略协同的关键。我国银行应该对控股信托子公司加强一级法人治理结构建设和严格业绩管理;推动信托公司专业化经营,实现银信协同发展;接轨银行整体战略目标,稳步推进综合经营工作。     

论国有商业银行机制改革与管理创新

加快国有商业银行机制改革和管理创新 ,是增强核心竞争力的有效手段。要采取渐进性、整体推进办法 ,按照建立现代企业制度的要求 ,着重进行法人治理结构、产权制度、资源管理等机制改革和管理创新。     

全面提升科技风险管理水平创建现代化商业银行

今年银监会开始对拟实施新《巴塞尔资本协议（以下简称“新资本协议”）》的部分银行进行初步检查,新资本协议的实施进入倒计时,即将到来的大考无疑是对各行风险管理能力的考查,同时也是对其信息系统能力的一次测试。针对银行信息科技落实新资本协议的基本情况以及银行信息科技风险管理情况,本刊近期对中信银行信息技术部进行了采访。     

Financial networks,bank efficiency and risk-taking

Networks with a core–periphery topology are found in many financial systems across different jurisdictions. Though the theoretical and structural aspects of core–periphery networks are clear, the consequences that core–periphery structures bring for banking efficiency stand as an open question. We address this gap in the literature by providing insights as to how the structure of financial networks can affect bank efficiency. We find that core–periphery structures are cost efficient for banks, which is a characteristic that encourages the participation of banks in financial networks. On the downside, we also show that core–periphery structures are risk-taking inefficient, because they imply higher systemic risk levels in the financial system. In this way, regulators should be aware of the excessive risk inefficiency that arises in the financial system due to individual decisions made by banks in the network.