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The Bulgarian Banks' competitiveness: the case of Remote banking [PDF]

open access: yes
The new information technologies adoption and e-commerce emergence change the role of financial intermediaries in new E-conomy. During the last years, the banks have started an expansion to the web – they offer broad range of traditional bank products ...
Bojidar Bojinov
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Loss, persistence and reversal of phenotypic traits

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The irreversibility of complex trait loss has long been a tenet of evolutionary biology. However, this idea is increasingly at odds with the numerous documented exceptions across the Tree of Life. We synthesise this growing body of evidence across a diverse array of taxa and traits, exploring the evolutionary conditions that enable ...
Giobbe Forni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Productivity in banking and effects from deregulation [PDF]

open access: yes
Over the last decade, banking productivity growth has been quite low, between 0.60 to –0.07 percent a year. Deregulation has served to raise banking costs but not measured output.
David B. Humphrey
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Performance Evaluation of Banking Branch System [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
The investments in information technology in the banking sector are growing since early '70s showing a growth rate higher then any other economic sector (with the only exception of the aereo-spatial sector). It is also foreseen an incremental sharp raise
Cavallari, Maurizio
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RNA‐centric world of retroviruses: unravelling the molecular strategies of genomic RNA packaging

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Retroviruses constitute a unique group of RNA viruses that have profoundly influenced both evolutionary trajectories and biomedical research. Their ability to reverse transcribe and integrate into host genomes has shaped genomic architecture across species and contributed to our understanding of oncogenes, gene regulation, and RNA biology ...
Mohammad Abdullah Jehad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Nonprice Terms to Ration Microfinance Loans Based on Expected Loan Loss Function

open access: yesJournal of Applied Mathematics
Microfinance institutions (MFIs) play a unique role in the financial sector, using an alternative financial intermediation system (business model) to provide banking services to the marginalized.
Enoch Sakyi-Yeboah   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the banking consolidation trend [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines whether the U.S. banking industry's recent consolidation trend--toward fewer and bigger firms--is a natural result of market forces.
John H. Boyd, Stanley L. Graham
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Green Innovation and Firm Efficiency: The Role of Institutional Quality in Italian High‐Tech Manufacturing Sectors

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The aim of this research is to verify whether institutional quality affects the relationship between green innovation and firm efficiency within the high‐tech manufacturing sectors. To estimate jointly the parameters of a stochastic frontier and the coefficients of a model explaining technical inefficiency, we employed the one‐step estimation ...
Mariarosaria Agostino   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multiple Criteria Framework to Evaluate Bank Branch Potential Attractiveness [PDF]

open access: yes
Remarkable progress has occurred over the years in the performance evaluation of bank branches. Even though financial measures are usually considered the most important in assessing branch viability, we posit that insufficient attention has been given to
Sérgio P. Santos   +3 more
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