Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references. Available also from UMI Company.

Magistro baigiamajame darbe išanalizuota ir įvertinta Lietuvos kredito įstaigų likvidumo rizikos vadybos tobulinimo galimybė. Pateikti siūlymai kaip patobulinti bankų aktyvų ir pasyvų valdymo sistemos efektyvumą. Pirmoje darbo dalyje teoriniu aspektu tiriamas bankų rizikos turinys, pateikiama bankų rizikos esmė bei klasifikavimo galimybės. Antroje dalyje nagrinėjamos aktyvų ir pasyvų strategijos, teorijos bei metodai. Trečioje dalyje analizuojamos ir vertinamos Lietuvos komercinių bankų veiklos bei likvidumo rizikos rodikliai, pokyčių tendencijos. / In Master‘ s Work is analysed and evaluated opportunity and effectiveness an of development liquidity of management in Lithuanian Banks of. There are provided to the possibilities to improve activity of bank. In the first part of this work we’ve provided conception of risk management and different risk classification models. In the second part of this work there are consideratios strategy, theories and methods of assets and liabilities. In the third part of work analyse and there is an evaluation at liquidity risk rates of Lithuanian commercial banks, also tendency of changes.

This thesis provides the empirical analysis of the second Basel regulatory framework implementation in Czech banks together with the economic performance inspection of the Czech banking sector. With Basel II, banks face the possibility to implement internal models to calculate capital adequacy related to bank's risk exposure. This possibility opens a discussion of its economic effect, transparency and potential misuse of the internal models. The empirical part of this thesis examines how the profitability and the reported riskiness change with internal models implementation. Furthermore, the role of cost efficiency to bank's profitability and risk adequacy ratio is evaluated. The panel data analysis of all Czech banks over a period 2006 to 2012 demonstrates that internal models for capital adequacy calculation increase bank's profitability together with a decrease of the reported riskiness measured by risk weighted assets. Moreover, the cost efficiency has proven to be a significant indicator of both profitability and capital adequacy ratio.

The issue of risk management in banks has become the centre of debate after the recent financial crises. Several efforts have been made to improve the risk management and performance of banks including introducing the Basel Accords as well as risk management guidelines by central banks. Consequently, the State Bank of Pakistan has issued risk management guidelines to strengthen the risk management system and to improve the performance of the local banks. However, the available literature in Pakistani context fails to explain the impact of these efforts on the performance of banks. The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the effectiveness of risk management processes and their relationship with the performance of banks. This study reviews the relevant literature on banking risk management from diverse methodological strands and synthesises its conclusions to make an addition to the available knowledge; particularly to address certain research gaps regarding risk management and performance of banks in developing countries, specifically in Pakistan. Owing to its empirical nature, the current research adopts a deductive reasoning approach in terms of theory testing. This study applies a mixed method research strategy by taking the quantitative method as the major component, while the qualitative method plays a supplementary role. The sample is composed of twenty banks in Pakistan and the stratification is performed according to the bank category (public, private and foreign) in respect of different strata. The study collects and analyses primary as well as secondary data. This research is carried out in three phases. In the first phase a qualitative system dynamics model (Causal Loop Diagram) is developed based upon interview data analysis to understand and document the behaviour of risk management systems of Pakistani banks. In the second phase, this research conducts questionnaire data analysis by using ordinary least-squares regression to assess the different aspects risk management practices of banks in Pakistan. Finally, two-stage data envelopment analysis technique has been adopted to examine the relationship between the risk management and performance of the selected banks. This study results reflect that it is very important for Pakistani banks to formulate an active risk management process to identify, measure, monitor and control different risks. These results further reveal that formation of a comprehensive risk management system is not only a useful practice to meet the regulatory requirements but an effective exercise to improve the performance of Pakistani banks also. By employing a pragmatic, embedded, mixed method research strategy, this study has created a new insight into risk management in local banks and extends the existing theoretical literature in the field of banking in various ways.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Business Administration)--University of California, Berkeley, May 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 68-73).