This paper analyzes the impact of government bailout policies on the risk of the banking sector in OECD countries between 2005 and 2013. We use the 2007-2008 financial crisis as an exogenous source of change in bailout ...

Studies on efficiency achieved greater relevance in organisations within an open market framework, which in Brazil began around 1990. The objective of this paper, applying the data envelopment analysis methodology, is to ...

The present study investigates theoretically the lending responses of government-owned and private banks in the event of unexpected financial shocks. Our model predicts that public banks provide more loans to the real ...

In the 1990s, Latin American banking sectors experienced an accelerated process of concentration and foreign penetration that prompted diverse views regarding its implications for the competitive behavior of banks and ...

The objective of this paper is to evaluate bank efficiency in the period from 2012 to 2016 by applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in a dataset of 37 Brazilian banks provided by the Brazilian Central Bank. We have ...

In complex systems, homogeneity has been documented as a source of fragility. Likewise, in the financial sector, it has been documented as a contributing factor for systemic risk. We assess homogeneity in the Colombian ...

Presents the reasons that lead Spanish banks to invest in the Brazilian banking sector and analyses the results of that strategy. Discuss the relationship among the global consolidation process in the banking sector, the ...