The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa potx

... Upper-Middle-Income Lower-Middle Income Low-Income SSA WP/09/15 The Determinants of Commercial Bank Profitability in Sub-Saharan Africa Valentina Flamini, Calvin McDonald, and Liliana Schumacher ... 9 The index ranks economies on their ease of doing business. A high ranking on the index means the regulatory environment is favorable to the operation of...

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... differ considerably in the extent of foreign ownership of their banking systems. An interesting issue is how the entry by foreign banks affects the operation of domestic banking firms. In principle, foreign ... values of about 50 percent for France and Germany. 8 The number of banks in the table reflects the number of banks in the data set with complete info...

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... contacts with their equiv- alents in the other subunit of the second dimer (Fig. 4A). In the case of P2 1 2 1 2(TcRpiB-R5P), the four molecules in the asymmetric unit represent the tetramer. The two ... Arg141¢. The other end of the substrate points into a deep pocket in the enzyme. Moving along the ligand from the phosphate, O4 inter- acts with His102¢ a...

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... in the absence of the other substrate. In the presence of oxoglutarate, however, coenzyme binding was tighter and therefore measurable and, in particular, gave measurable K d values for binding ... evolution of nucleotide-binding protein. Nature 250, 194–199. 5 Wierenga RK, Terpstra P & Hol WG (1986) Prediction of the occurrence of the ADP-binding bab-fold in p...

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... DISEASE FOLLOWING INFECTION: INFLUENCE OF THE NUMBER OF INFECTING BACILLI, THE DURATION OF EXPOSURE AND THE COMPETENCE OF THE INDIVIDUAL’S IMMUNE SYSTEM Number of infecting bacilli Exposure Immune system Disease Very ... preventive therapy irrespective of state of health and tuberculin response. In the absence of information on the effectiveness of preventive t...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20

... article examines the consequences of the proliferation of S-banks for assessing the profitability of the U.S. banking industry. The quarterly Uniform Bank Performance Report (UBPR) produced by the Federal ... dividends they receive. Positive profits in the current year increase the net worth of the shareholders of both the C- bank and S -bank. The incre...

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... authors explain these findings as “a result of inadequate provisioning for loan losses: higher non-performing loans would reduce banks’ income, thereby lowering the spread in the absence of adequate ... fall in bank interest margins and an increase in credit. Figure 1 illustrates the behavior of the bank interest spread in Brazil for both the corporate and the...

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... member of WTO, the MFN status with the US would contribute significantly to the inflow of FDI. The authors then used their estimate to simulate the effect of the BTA on the inflow of FDI into ... further references. 15 4.1 DETERMINANTS OF FDI IN VIETNAM The impressive growth of FDI inflows into Vietnam has generated a number of empirical studies on t...

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... differences in capital structure of banks back to differences in the quality of corporate governance in the banks. Frank and 29 There are other interesting differences in the governance of banks ... assets. There are less than 100 publicly traded banks in the EU at the beginning of our time period. There are no data for the US in 1991 and 1992. We also...

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