Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cost efficiency of banks operating in two “non-core” EU … countries, Portugal and Spain, over a number of years. Specifically, the paper aims to examine the extent to which banks … analysis is used to identify banks' levels of performance over time in both countries. In order to decompose banks' total …

implication or is downgraded. Findings – Firms which are certified and monitored by high-quality banks are less susceptible to …-quality lending banks sustain investors' confidence in their borrowers in the face of deteriorating news. The paper argues that …

models employing Translog and Fourier functional specifications. An unbalanced panel of 59 Indian banks over 1990-2007 is …

Islamic commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach – Unlike current accounts holders, investment accounts holders may … of 59 Islamic banks observed during the period 2005-2009. Findings – After controlling for a set of variables that may … may indicate that the specific nature of PSIA can be a source of excessive risk-taking in Islamic banks. This behavior is …

Islamic commercial banks. Design/methodology/approach – Unlike current accounts holders, investment accounts holders may … of 59 Islamic banks observed during the period 2005-2009. Findings – After controlling for a set of variables that may … may indicate that the specific nature of PSIA can be a source of excessive risk-taking in Islamic banks. This behavior is …

-commercial banks financial institutions. …

sluggish due to a lack of customer's confidence in banks, has indeed improved the overall functioning of Serbia's banking …

, pure efficiency change and scale efficiency change indexes for the Turkish banks. In the second stage, utilizing the …,” productivity growth during the period was 1.2 percent for state banks, 3.9 percent for private banks and 14.2 percent for foreign … banks. Under the “non-traditional banking definition,” the productivity gain over the period was 2.9 percent for state banks …

/methodology/approach – The sample comprises a total of 11 banks (four state-owned and seven joint-stock commercial banks) listed in the Chinese … state-owned and joint-stock banks, while the capital level is negatively related to joint-stock commercial banks. With … productivity improve the performance of both state-owned and joint-stock commercial banks. Large volume of non-traditional activity …

, pure efficiency change and scale efficiency change indexes for the Turkish banks. In the second stage, utilizing the …,” productivity growth during the period was 1.2 percent for state banks, 3.9 percent for private banks and 14.2 percent for foreign … banks. Under the “non‐traditional banking definition,” the productivity gain over the period was 2.9 percent for state banks …