This paper tests four related theories on the relationships among market structure,
profitability, and efficiency using a stochastic frontier analysis and dynamic panel data for …

This paper has analyzed cost efficiency and its determinants in Middle Eastern and Northern
African (MENA) countries during the 2005–2012 period. Our results have shown that cost …

Purpose The study examines the relationship between the consequential social cost of
market power (ie welfare performance of banks) and cost efficiency using data covering the …

Abstract The Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates), while heavily reliant on hydrocarbon export incomes …

The banking industry has been widely plagued by global financial and economic crises
despite its central role in the financial sustainability and economic life of a country. A series …

In the last three decades, the banking structure in Tunisia has witnessed a consistent
weakening in concentration, expansion of foreign capital, shrinking of state ownership and …

The study analyses the welfare performance of banks' lending services in the Ghanaian
banking industry with emphasis on the role of market power and efficiency. We made use of …

During the last three decades, the issues & challenges faced by most banking industries
worldwide have been widely debated both in academic and policy level circles. Some of the …

O presente artigo tem como objectivo testar a hipótese Quit-life (QL) no sector bancário
angolano. Para alcançar o objectivo desenhou-se uma metodologia assente nos modelos …

Banks are the most important institutions of a country's financial market and any deviation in
the role of banks in financing production activities will have harmful effects on economic …