In recent years the European airline industry has undergone critical restructuring. It has evolved from a highly regulated market predominantly operated by national airlines to a dynamic, liberalized industry where airline firms compete freely on prices, routes, and frequencies. Although several...

This study attempts to provide one of the first comprehensive analyses on the misratings in sovereign credit ratings. The analyses are performed using partial frontier methods which should be considered innovative in this literature. By combining a robust variant of the Free Disposal Hull (FDH)...

In this paper, we aim to fill the gap in the banking literature by quantifying the impact that the Schumpeterian competition mode – i.e. competition through the launch of new products (or new varieties of products) – has on the cost and profit efficiency of a sample of commercial banks based...

As competition in the banking sector has intensified over the last two decades, commercial banks have started to use trademarks to differentiate their products and services from those offered by their competitors. Less clear are the implications of the trademarking activities on the commercial...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the performance of the Egyptian banks during a period characterized by changes in economic policies. The paper investigates whether the liberalization policies embarked upon by the Egyptian government in the early 1990s have had a positive or negative impact...

This paper describes procedures in panel data econometrics for efficiency measurement and productivity decomposition in the banking system of an emerging economy with a special focus on the period following a financial crisis. In the recovery from a banking crisis, policymakers attempt to...