Using a sample of 272 commercial banks from fifteen Latin American countries for the period
2001–2008, we estimate cost and revenue efficiency scores, financial stability scores (Z …

This paper explores the efficiency of banks in five South East Asian countries (Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam) using the non-parametric data …

This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American
region during 2002-07. Using two main empirical approaches, Data Envelopment Analysis …

In this paper, we examined the dynamic convergence in cost and profit efficiency levels for a
large panel of banks in 19 Latin American and the Caribbean countries over the period 1999 …

We report new findings on bank efficiency in East Asian countries for the pre-and post-IMF
restructuring periods. We find that bank efficiency has improved, but only to the pre-IMF …

The objective of this study was to investigate the dynamic causality relationship between
competition and banking fragility in Indonesia. Banking fragility phenomena in the world as …

This paper examines the ultimate ownership structure on accounting performance of 31
Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) in Malaysia. The IFIs include the commercial banks …

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BANKING AND FINANCE A DEA AND TOBIT ANALYSIS OF THE
DETERMINANTS OF COST AND PROFIT EFFICIENCY IN THE T Page 1 1 The International …

This study investigates the impact of foreign banks entry on financial development in
Lebanon for the period between 1995 and 2014. We use the number of foreign banks to …

The importance of stability and efficiency in operations of banking sector has motivated to
make an attempt to investigate the impact of Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) on Technical …