Since financial liberalization in the 1980s, non-profit maximizing, stakeholder-oriented banks have outperformed private banks in Europe. This article draws on empirical research, banking theory and theories of the firm ...

Abstract Development Banks are part of the financial landscape of the Eastern Caribbean. In one form or another they have been in existence since the late 1960s and have played a not too insignificant role in the financing ...

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 ...

This paper investigates empirically the cyclical lending patterns of national development banks. To this purpose, we compare the lending activity of national development banks, across crisis and normal times, with that of ...

We develop a process-based model to simulate the geomorphodynamic evolution of tidal channels, considering hydrodynamics, flow-induced bank erosion, gravity-induced bank collapse, and sediment dynamics. A stress-deformation ...

Over the last decade, Brazil has pioneered an innovative model of branchless banking, known as correspondent banking, involving distribution partnership between banks, several kinds of retailers and a variety of other ...

This paper explores how savings banks, cooperative banks, and development banks were founded as social reactions of self-defense in the 19th century, accumulated patient capital but suffered political capture in the early ...