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What drives the performance of selected MENA banks? : a meta-frontier analysis
Naceur, Sami Ben; Ben-Khedhiri, Hichem; Casu, Barbara - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009487107
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Bank Efficiency Amid Foreign Entry : Evidence From the Central American Region
Wezel, Torsten - 2010
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 and Stochastic Frontier Analysis, the paper finds that foreign banks are not necessarily more efficient than their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402808
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Explaining Efficiency Differences Among Large German and Austrian Banks
Hauner, David - 2004
Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the period studied. State-owned banks are found to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401366
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Determinants of Commercial Bank Performance in Transition : An Application of Data Envelopment Analysis
Grigorian, David A. - 2002
Banking sectors in transition economies have experienced major transformations throughout the 1990s. While some …) consolidation is likely to improve the efficiency of banking operations. Overall, the results confirm the usefulness of DEA for … transition-related applications and shed some light on the question of the optimal architecture of a banking system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401624
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What Drives the Performance of Selected Mena Banks? : A Meta-Frontier Analysis
Ben Naceur, Sami - 2011
explaining efficiency differences. To foster banking sector performance, policies should be aimed at giving banks incentives to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402556
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Chinese investment in Latin America : sectoral complementarity and the impact of China's rebalancing
Ding, Ding; Di Vittorio, Fabio; Lariau, Ana; Zhou, Yue - 2021
Over the last decade China's investment in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has increased substantially in volume and become more diversified from natural resources to other industries. Using cross-border mergers and acquisitions data, we demonstrate that since mid-2010s China's overseas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612332
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Institutional Factors and Financial Sector Development : Evidence From Sub-Saharan Africa
Toroyan, Hovhannes - 2009
The paper assesses the effects of certain institutional factors on financial sector development in Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA). Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to determine the extent to which these institutions affect the financial sector, and to suggest which institutions play a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402225
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The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China : A Nonparametric Approach
Unel, Bulent - 2006
China''s growth record since the start of its economic reforms in 1978 has been extraordinary. Yet, this impressive performance has been associated with an increasing regional income disparity. We use a recently developed nonparametric approach to analyze the variation in labor productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402399
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Government Spendingon Health Care and Education in Croatia : Efficiency and Reform Options
Gunnarsson, Victoria - 2008
This paper assesses the relative efficiency of government spending on health care and education in Croatia by using the so-called Data Envelopment Analysis. The analysis finds evidence of significant inefficiencies in Croatia''s spending on health care and education, related to inadequate cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401822
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Can fintech foster competition in the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean?
Suchanan Tambunlertchai; Bejar, Pablo; Ishi, Kotaro; … - 2021
This paper revisits the competitive environment of the banking system in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and … approaches and prudential considerations in fostering financial innovation and banking sector competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012605062