An analysis of the foreign and domestic balance sheet strategies of the US banks and their association to profitability performance

Authors

John A. Haslem
Carl A. Scheraga, Fairfield UniversityFollow
James P. Bedingfield

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1992

Abstract

This study analyzed the 1987 data of 176 relatively large U.S. banks that have both foreign and domestic offices. Canonical analysis and the interpretive framework of asset/liability management were used to identify and interpret their foreign and domestic balance sheet strategies in the context of the "crisis in lending to LDCs." The analysis found a consistent dichotomy in foreign and domestic asset/liability matching strategies, the former being more generally conservative with respect to interest-rate and liquidity risks. Among the 44 very large banks, those that were found to follow a predominant or consistent foreign strategy are more profitable than those that follow a mixed or, especially, domestic strategy. Further, these banks that follow a consistent foreign (domestic) matching strategy have the smallest (largest) mean proportions of all foreign asset and liability variables.

Comments

Copyright 1992 Springer Verlag

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Publication Title

MIR: Management International Review

Repository Citation

Haslem, John A.; Scheraga, Carl A.; and Bedingfield, James P., "An analysis of the foreign and domestic balance sheet strategies of the US banks and their association to profitability performance" (1992). Business Faculty Publications. 108.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/business-facultypubs/108

Published Citation

Haslem, John A., Carl A. Scheraga, and James P. Bedingfield. "An analysis of the foreign and domestic balance sheet strategies of the US banks and their association to profitability performance." MIR: Management International Review (1992): 32(1), 55-75.