This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the efficiency and competitiveness of the Takaful … insurance. We employ the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute the efficiency of Takaful operators, while Panzar-Rosse (P …-R) H-statistic method is used to evaluate the degree of competition. The findings indicate that the inefficiency in Takaful …

The prolonged crisis exposed the vulnerability of a monetary union without a banking union. The Single Supervisory … trust in the banking system. The ECB is today responsible for setting a single monetary policy applicable throughout the …

impact of efficiency, as well as concentration, on banking competition measured by the Net Interest Margin (NIM), controlling …On the road to the new landscape in EU banking brought on by the financial crisis we assess the relationship between … the level of competitiveness and efficiency. We estimate X-inefficiency for a sample of banks operating in the European …

This paper reviews the different ways to measure bank efficiency and highlight the results of research on bank … efficiency in Asian emerging economies. In particular it will outline the extent of research thus far conducted on the efficiency …

banks) and cost efficiency using data covering the period 2009 to 2017 from the Ghanaian banking industry. The study adopts … conditional distribution of bank welfare performance rather than just the conditional mean effect of cost efficiency …. The results indicate a positive relationship between banks' welfare performance and cost efficiency, which suggests that …

This paper investigates the impact of corporate governance on bank efficiency across a sample of 139 commercial banks … implementing rigorous corporate governance structures is associated with higher costs for banks and a lower level of efficiency …, tight risk management is associated with both higher cost and technical efficiency for more capitalized banks, while rigid …

estimated, while the relationship between IC and bank efficiency is examined in the second stage. The results indicate a … observing the effect of IC decompositions, the findings show that only human capital enhances all types of bank efficiency …. Furthermore, bank size and liquidity risk are significant drivers of Vietnamese bank efficiency. Therefore, our findings suggest …

This paper examines the impact of business diversification of banks on their risk, with efficiency taken into … consideration as a conduit. Using bank-level data from more than 1000 commercial banks in 39 emerging economies during the period of … 2000-2016, we find that increased business diversification exerts two competing effects on bank risk. The direct effect of …