Bank ownership structure, regulations and risk-taking : evidence from commercial banks in Pakistan

This paper conducts the first empirical assessment of the theories concerning the influence of ownership structure on bank risk-taking in the presence of regulations in Pakistan. The sample used in this paper comprises a panel data of 26 banks in Pakistan, for the period from 2000 to 2014. The analysis provides evidence that increase in ownership concentration leads to an increase in bank risk-taking. Managerial ownership is associated with high risk-taking at low and high levels of managerial ownership while at intermediate level, managerial ownership has negative impact on bank risk-taking. Different types of ownership of banks in Pakistan have different impact on risk-taking. While government, family and institutional ownership have a positive impact on bank risk-taking, foreign own- ership has a negative impact on bank risk-taking. Furthermore, the results show that capital regulations are important in influencing bank risk-taking with regard to higher ownership concentration. The findings of this paper suggest that the relation between bank risk-taking and capital regulations typically depends on the type of ownership.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

The impact of deregulation and re-regulation on bank efficiency: evidence from Asia

Following the 1997 crisis, banking sector reforms in Asia have been characterised by the emphasis on prudential regulation, associated with increased financial liberalisation. Using a panel data set of commercial banks from eight major Asian economies over the period 2001-2010, this study explores how the coexistence of liberalisation and prudential regulation affects banks’ cost characteristics. Given the presence of heterogeneity of technologies across countries, we use a stochastic frontier approach followed by the estimation of a deterministic meta-frontier to provide ‘true’ estimates of bank cost efficiency measures. Our results show that the liberalization of bank interest rates and the increase in foreign banks' presence have had a positive and significant impact on technological progress and cost efficiency. On the other hand, we find that prudential regulation might adversely affect bank cost performance. When designing an optimal regulatory framework, policy makers should combine policies which aim to foster financial stability without hindering financial intermediation

Pitching DEA against SFA in the context of Chinese domestic versus foreign banks

The primary motivation is to show how the efficient frontier methods data envelopment analysis (DEA) and stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) can be used synergistically. As part of the illustration, we directly compare locally incorporated foreign banks with Chinese domestic banks. Both DEA and SFA reveal that foreign banks are less efficient. DEA shows the main source of inefficiency for foreign banks as managing interest income, whereas domestic banks are inefficient in managing non-interest income and interest expense. SFA reveals contextual variables such as interbank ratio, loan-to-deposit ratio and cost-to-income ratio are significant in explaining inefficiency. The correspondence of rankings based on DEA vs. SFA is positive and moderate in strength but efficiency estimates do not belong to the same distribution. Using DEA and SFA side-by-side can encourage more rigorous and in-depth bank efficiency studies where each method’s limitation can be overcome by the other

Banking efficiency and stock market performance: an analysis of listed Indonesian banks

Indonesian banking, Emerging markets, Productivity, Efficiency, C23, C52, G21,

Did efficiency of Indian public sector banks converge with banking reforms?

Data envelopment analysis, Public sector banks, Technical efficiency, σ-Convergence, β-Convergence, G21, G15,