Securities firms are the leading institutions that facilitate the flow of funds by performing key
services both in primary and secondary markets. The assessment of the efficiency of these …

Using a production function approach, this study is the first to focus on the effect of
operational inefficiency on the stock returns of large global financial firms. Inefficiency is …

It is a common perception that efficiency is an important issue regardless of industry. A
sound and highly functional insurance industry serves as a crucial financing channel in an …

Investment banks' core functions expose them to a wide array of risks. This paper analyses
cost and profit efficiency for a sample of investment banks for the G7 countries (Canada …

This study aims to investigate the relationship between efficiency and the stock performance
of the banking sector in Turkey. Efficiency analysis is conducted via Stochastic Frontier …

This article investigates the effect of efficiencies on market risk using a sample of Chinese
commercial banks from 2000 to 2015 using different measures of market risk; the Value at …

The paper investigated cost efficiencies and its relationship with risk-return behavior of
banks in United Arab Emirates (UAE). The major findings are that there were 10–25 …

The aim of this study is to estimate the level of firm efficiency in the Gulf Cooperation Council
countries including Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether firm efficiency can explain the
investment anomaly. The investment anomaly refers to the persistent negative relation …

In this paper, we investigate the relationship among capital, risk and efficiency in Eurozone
and the US banking institutions. We also assess the determinants of bank capital, risk and …