. Participation in bank holding companies is harmful for community banks' efficiency. Liquidity creation is positively (negatively … compare the two bank types on the basis of cost efficiency. We decompose cost efficiency into a persistent and a residual … estimates show community banks to exhibit a 4.9% higher efficiency compared to their non-community counterparts. The …

across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We …This paper examines how efficiency dynamics of Islamic and conventional banks compare and how they are converging … both steady state efficiency and the speed of convergence of Islamic and conventional banks are similar. A non …

across countries, which could explain the plurality in conclusions in the Islamic/conventional bank efficiency debate. We …This paper examines how efficiency dynamics of Islamic and conventional banks compare and how they are converging … both steady state efficiency and the speed of convergence of Islamic and conventional banks are similar. A non …

impact of competition on bank orientation - i.e., the choice of relationship based versus transactional banking - and bank … industry specialization. We empirically investigate the impact of interbank competition on bank branch orientation and … specialization. We employ a unique data set containing detailed information on bank-firm relationships and industry classification …