Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency …

This paper examines bank credit growth in emerging markets before, during, and after the 2008-09 financial crisis using … bank-level data, focusing on the role of bank ownership. Credit growth by foreign banks lagged behind that of domestic …

Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the …

Financial regulation is often framed as a question of economic efficiency. This paper, by contrast, puts the … risktaking map into different levels of welfare for the two parties. A regulator has to trade off efficiency in the financial … sector, which is aided by deregulation, against efficiency in the real economy, which is aided by tighter regulation and a …

African (MENA) countries in the period 1994 -2008. We evaluate bank efficiency in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon and Tunisia … bank specific variables on bank efficiency. Overall, the analysis shows that, despite similarities in the process of …This study examines the effect of financial-sector reform on bank performance in selected Middle Eastern and North …

-specific characteristics are found to have a considerable influence on bank efficiency …This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002 … acquired by global banks in a wave of acquisitions during 2005-07 can keep up with the local institutions. The efficiency of …

commercial bank efficiency by applying a version of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to bank-level data from a wide range of … suggests that (1) foreign ownership with controlling power and enterprise restructuring enhances commercial bank efficiency; (2 … transition countries. In addition to stressing the importance of some bank-specific variables, the censored Tobit analysis …

We use bank level data to study the efficiency of banks in Sub-Saharan African middle-income countries and provide … possible explanations for the difference in the efficiency levels of banks. We find that banks, on average, could save 20 … and domestic private banks. Among the factors that could affect the efficiency levels are macroeconomic stability, depth …