This paper surveys 130 studies that apply frontier efficiency analysis to financial institutions
in 21 countries. The primary goals are to summarize and critically review empirical estimates …

This paper investigates input and output efficiency in the Turkish banking industry to
understand the impact of size, international variables, ownership, control and governance …

Measures of technical and scale efficiencies are derived in the Italian banking industries by
implementing non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis on a cross section of 174 Italian …

In January 1980, a new liberal economic policy was adopted in Turkey to promote financial
market development and increase the efficiency and productivity of the financial sector by …

This article introduces a new approach, cross-frontier analysis, for estimating the relative
efficiency of alternative organizational forms in an industry. The technique is illustrated by …

This paper investigates economies of scope in the US insurance industry over the period
1993–2006. We test the conglomeration hypothesis, which holds that firms can optimize by …

The intensive process of financial European integration, together with the profound
transformation and deregulation that has taken place in the Spanish banking system …

Purpose–To examine the relative efficiency between the domestic and foreign banks Islamic
banking operations in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach–The paper utilises the Data …

Purpose–In an attempt to enrich the literature of the efficiency of Islamic banks, this study
aims to empirically investigate the efficiency of the fully fledged Islamic banks as well as …

The study examines the effect of ownership structure on firm performance. We distinguish
between family firms, firms controlled by partnerships of individuals, concern controlled …