Paper Review “Financial Liberalization, Crisis and Restructuring: A Comparative study of bank performance and bank governance in South East Asia Authors: Jonathan Williams, and Nghia Nguyen: Journal of Banking and Finance 29 (2005) 2119 – 2154”

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of changes in bank governance on bank performance for a sample of commercial banks operating in South East Asia between 1990 and 2003.  To meet their objective, authors collect data from Bankscope and IBCA databases for bank financial statements whilst macroeconomic data were obtained from the IMF International Financial Statistics and the Asian Development Bank. To qualify bank ownership, authors relied on the aforementioned databases, bank websites, and academic sources that have detailed changes in banking ownership including privatizations.